This, the authors write in the June issue of the journal Sleep, suggests that the well-known effects of excess weight may be an important factor in sleep-disordered breathing in children, just as they are in adults.
A headache exclusive during sleep suggests hypnic headache [49].
Recent evidence of limbic system activation during REM sleep suggests a basis in brain architecture for the interaction of motivational and cognitive properties in dreaming.
However, the men also had more thoughts about food and sleep, suggesting perhaps that men are more prone to indulgent impulses in general.
Research evaluating the impact of emotions on sleep suggests that the negative valence and high arousal dimensions of emotion are similarly associated with increased sleep latency and fragmentation and decreased sleep quality and total sleep time.
Examination of sleep architecture 24 h after cessation of sub-chronic zolpidem administration revealed a decrease in Delta sleep, suggesting that repeated zolpidem administration might elicit enduring modifications to sleep organization.
The greater frequency of visual imagery reports and higher imagery ratings specifically from REM sleep suggests that previously reported dreaming side effects from 24-h nicotine patches may be specific to REM sleep.
To Margoliash, the wide-open communication between HVc and RA during sleep suggests that that's when the birds learn to refine their songs, although other neurobiologists caution that there is as yet no direct proof for that idea.
Experiments have shown that rats reactivate temporally sequenced events during sleep, suggesting they are consolidating memory.
