Deep Sleep Reinforces the Learning of New Motor Skills
Neurons Recap Useful Firing Patterns During Deep Sleep By Devika G. Bansal on August 10, 2017 | UCSF.edu The benefits of a good night’s sleep have become widely known, and now neuroscientists at UC San Francisco have discovered that the animal brain reinforces motor skills during deep sleep. During non-REM sleep, slow brain waves bolster neural touchpoints that are directly related to a task that was newly learned while awake, while weakening neural links that are not, the researchers found. “This phenomenon may be related to the notion of ‘extracting the gist’ of how to perform a novel task,” said …
What is deep sleep and how much of it should you be getting?
Oliver Wheaton for Metro.co.uk | Thursday 3 Aug 2017 2:07 pm | Metro.co.uk There are several different stages of sleeping, but the one which is most important to the body is deep sleep. In the modern age with our hectic lives and constant stimuli, people are getting less and less deep sleep, which can be having an affect on our health. What is deep sleep? Sleep researchers generally divide sleep up into five stages. Stages one and two are ‘light sleep’, stages three and four are ‘deep sleep’, while stage five is REM. Light sleep occurs when you first nod …
Sacrificing sleep? Here’s what it will do to your health
by Sandee LaMotte, CNN | Updated 6:32 AM ET, Fri August 18, 2017 This feature is part of CNN Parallels, an interactive series exploring ways you can improve your health by making small changes to your daily habits. (CNN) – We are one groggy, cranky, sleep-deprived population. Depending on our age, we are supposed to get between seven and 10 hours of sleep each night. But according to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, a third of us get fewer than seven hours of sleep per night. In addition, 50 million to 70 million Americans suffer from sleep …
Tips and Tricks to Resolve Common Sleep Problems
June 01, 2017 | By Dr. Mercola | Mercola.com The importance of sleep is widely ignored and the cost rarely considered, even though it includes everything from reduced work productivity and increased risk of serious accidents to psychological deterioration and physiological dysfunction. The proof is quite clear: You destroy your health if you regularly ignore your body’s need for sleep to repair and recharge. Even the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has warned that lack of sleep is a public health epidemic, noting that insufficient sleep has been linked to a wide variety of health problems. Skyrocketing rates of …
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