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Alcohol decreased sleep efficiency and rapid eye movement sleep, and increased wake time and next-day sleepiness.
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Seriously Science, Discover Magazine, 13 Dec. 2013
According to the Sleep Foundation, your body burns the most calories during rapid eye movement sleep when your heart rate increases.
—Clare Mulroy, USA TODAY, 21 Sep. 2022
Dogs experience both slow wave sleep (SWS) and rapid eye movement sleep (REM).
—Anna Kaufman, USA TODAY, 21 Aug. 2022
Yet even that tiny amount of light created a deficit of slow wave and rapid eye movement sleep, the stages of slumber in which most cellular renewal occurs, Zee said.
—Sandee Lamotte, CNN, 14 Mar. 2022
The two most important phases for restoration are the dreamy state of REM, or rapid eye movement sleep, and delta, or slow-wave, sleep, according to Rebecca Robbins, an associate scientist at Brigham & Women's Hospital who studies sleep.
—Sandee Lamotte, CNN, 14 Mar. 2021
The field of sleep research was launched nearly 75 years ago, after the discovery of rapid eye movement sleep (REM) upended the prevailing belief that sleep was a passive state.
—Corryn Wetzel, Smithsonian Magazine, 18 Sep. 2020
Stages three and four contain the deepest, most restorative sleep and the dreamy state of REM, or rapid eye movement sleep.
—Sandee Lamotte, CNN, 25 June 2020
Get ready to spoon and snuggle with your spouse, partner or loved one all night long — a new study has found couples who sleep together in the same bed improve their dream stage of rest, known as rapid eye movement sleep.
—Sandee Lamotte, CNN, 25 June 2020
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Seriously Science, Discover Magazine, 13 Dec. 2013
According to the Sleep Foundation, your body burns the most calories during rapid eye movement sleep when your heart rate increases.
—Clare Mulroy, USA TODAY, 21 Sep. 2022
Dogs experience both slow wave sleep (SWS) and rapid eye movement sleep (REM).
—Anna Kaufman, USA TODAY, 21 Aug. 2022
Yet even that tiny amount of light created a deficit of slow wave and rapid eye movement sleep, the stages of slumber in which most cellular renewal occurs, Zee said.
—Sandee Lamotte, CNN, 14 Mar. 2022
The two most important phases for restoration are the dreamy state of REM, or rapid eye movement sleep, and delta, or slow-wave, sleep, according to Rebecca Robbins, an associate scientist at Brigham & Women's Hospital who studies sleep.
—Sandee Lamotte, CNN, 14 Mar. 2021
The field of sleep research was launched nearly 75 years ago, after the discovery of rapid eye movement sleep (REM) upended the prevailing belief that sleep was a passive state.
—Corryn Wetzel, Smithsonian Magazine, 18 Sep. 2020
Stages three and four contain the deepest, most restorative sleep and the dreamy state of REM, or rapid eye movement sleep.
—Sandee Lamotte, CNN, 25 June 2020
Get ready to spoon and snuggle with your spouse, partner or loved one all night long — a new study has found couples who sleep together in the same bed improve their dream stage of rest, known as rapid eye movement sleep.
—Sandee Lamotte, CNN, 25 June 2020
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“Rapid eye movement sleep.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/rapid%20eye%20movement%20sleep. Accessed 17 Nov. 2024.
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