There are two predominant modulators of sleep: the circadian oscillator that controls the timing of sleep and the sleep homoeostat that integrates the time awake and promotes sleep drive.
They were stalling, angling for more time awake.
The latter include intrasleep architecture, circadian phase, time awake, age, or disordered sleep.
We show that force platform posturographic balance testing addresses this need because it estimates time awake (TA) accurately and precisely.
In contrast, xanomeline increased time awake and arousal during wake, but reduced slow wave activity during NREM sleep.
Immediately following the encounter, rats spent more time awake and less time in SWS and REM sleep.
As the New York Times pointed out, 50 minutes is one sixteenth of the average person's daily time awake.
Unless you're doing work that doesn't require much thought, you are trading time awake at the expense of performance".
Participants in the gratitude condition also reported getting more hours of sleep each night, spending less time awake before falling asleep, and feeling more refreshed upon awakening.
Compared to baseline and placebo, valerian treatment led to significant reductions in sleep latencies and nocturnal time awake, lengthened total sleep time and improved sleep quality.
Horowitz TS, Cade BE, Wolfe JM, Czeisler CA. Searching night and day: a dissociation of effects of circadian phase and time awake on visual selective attention and vigilance.
