How to Use slow-wave sleep in a Sentence

slow-wave sleep

noun

• Deep sleep, also known as slow-wave sleep, is the deepest stage of sleep.
  — Nick Blackmer, Verywell Health, 7 Nov. 2023
• That prepares you for the next stage -- a deep, slow-wave sleep, also known as delta sleep.
  — Sandee Lamotte, CNN, 12 Jan. 2022
• This worked only if they had been exposed to the rose odour during learning, and had smelled it during slow-wave sleep.
  — Sadie Witkowski, Smithsonian, 16 Feb. 2018
• Falling into slow-wave sleep, or deep sleep, is an important step in that process and sleep routines help pave the way.
  — Byalexa Mikhail, Fortune, 19 Oct. 2022
• What this paper doesn't explain, and doesn't try to, is dreaming, REM sleep, which is very different to slow-wave sleep.
  — Neuroskeptic, Discover Magazine, 21 Aug. 2011
• Another important stage of sleep is deep sleep, when your brain waves slow into what is called delta waves or slow-wave sleep.
  — Sandee Lamotte, CNN, 25 June 2020
• Next, participants slept in the lab, and the experimenters waited until the deepest stage of sleep (slow-wave sleep) to once again expose them to the odour.
  — Sadie Witkowski, Smithsonian, 16 Feb. 2018
• Waking up during slow-wave sleep, which makes up the majority of your 1.5- to 2-hour sleep cycles, can leave you feeling groggy the next day.
  — Amanda MacMillan, Outside Online, 30 Dec. 2014
• The researchers say the association between the issues and your optimal sleep time may have something to do with slow-wave sleep.
  — Joshua Hawkins, BGR, 5 May 2022
• Those awakened from slow-wave sleep are groggy and disoriented.
  — Carl Zimmer, New York Times, 7 June 2018
• Sleep quality often decreases during the aging process, due to less slow-wave sleep (also known as deep sleep).
  — Allison Futterman, Discover Magazine, 3 Jan. 2022
• People with severe sleep apnea who spent less time in deep, also known as slow-wave sleep, had more damage to the white matter of the brain than people who had more slow-wave sleep, according to the study.
  — Sandee Lamotte, CNN, 10 May 2023
• The researchers discovered that eating more saturated fat and less fiber from foods like vegetables, fruits and whole grains led to reductions in slow-wave sleep, which is the deep, restorative kind.
  — Star Tribune, 8 Jan. 2021
• Aromatherapy using lavender oil may also increase time spent in deep, slow-wave sleep.
  — Meghan Overdeep, Southern Living, 20 Aug. 2020
• During a typical night, a person goes through four stages of sleep: stage 1 (initially falling asleep), stage 2 (light sleep), stage 3 (deep sleep, or slow-wave sleep), and rapid eye movement (REM) sleep, when the brain is particularly active.
  — Nick Blackmer, Verywell Health, 7 Nov. 2023
• Video gaming has been linked to declines in verbal memory and restorative slow-wave sleep in school-aged children, but it has also been shown to improve motor performance and spatial abilities.
  — Sandee Lamotte, CNN, 23 Sep. 2019
• One study found the pink noise cocktail increased deep or slow-wave sleep and improved memory in a few people with existing cognitive impairment, but the results were much stronger in cognitively healthy adults in their 70s.
  — Sandee Lamotte, CNN, 3 May 2021
• Doing so prepares us for the third stage — a deep, slow-wave sleep where the body is restoring itself on a cellular level, fixing damage from the day’s wear and tear and consolidating memories into long-term storage.
  — Sandee Lamotte, CNN, 13 Mar. 2023
• One study, published in the Journal of Clinical Sleep Medicine, found that participants with a higher intake of fiber and lower consumption of sugar and saturated fat spent more time in restorative, slow-wave sleep.
  — Cynthia Sass, Mph, Health.com, 3 July 2019
• For example, two toxic substrates flushed during slow-wave sleep include beta Amyloid and tau, protein pieces that occur in greater quantities in patients with Alzheimer’s disease.
  — Mackenzie Wagoner, Vogue, 18 Oct. 2022
• People’s brains produce less slow-wave sleep after age 40, according to György Buzsáki of Rutgers University.
  — Andrew Grant, Discover Magazine, 27 June 2010
• Mednick said subjects on the drug typically would lose out on slow-wave sleep, or deep sleep, which is related to memory consolidation and physical and mental restoration.
  — Lilly Nguyen, Daily Pilot, 10 Sep. 2019
• Doing so prepares us for the third stage — a deep, slow-wave sleep where the body is literally restoring itself on a cellular level, fixing damage from the day’s wear and tear and consolidating memories into long-term storage.
  — Sandee Lamotte, CNN, 20 Jan. 2023
• Doing so prepares us for the third stage – a deep, slow-wave sleep where the body is literally restoring itself on a cellular level – fixing damage from the day’s wear and tear and consolidating memories into long-term storage.
  — Sandee Lamotte, CNN, 27 Sep. 2022
• Of particular note: The deep, almost ethereal bass tones meant to promote slow-wave sleep, a phase that’s responsible for consolidating memory and learning as brain waves oscillate at the supremely mellow frequency of 10Hz.
  — Corey Seymour, Vogue, 30 Mar. 2018

Last Updated: 20 Dec 2024