Article: REM sleep enhances creative problem solving more than any other sleep or wake state.

Article: EUGENE ASERINSKY, SCIENTIST WHO DISCOVERED REM ...
Rocky Mountain News (Denver, CO);  July 25, 1998 ;     525 words ... ... rapid eye movement - or REM - sleep, died Wednesday after ... the accident north of San Diego. In 1952, Mr. Aserinsky ... a co-discoverer of REM sleep with Nathaniel Kleitman ... total sleep time. Non-REM sleep has four stages, the ...

Article: Discoverer of REM sleep dies in crash
AP Online;  July 23, 1998 ;     419 words ... ... rapid eye movement _ or REM _ sleep died after his car veered ... in La Costa, north of San Diego, Wednesday afternoon ... total sleep time. Non-REM sleep has four stages, the ... a co-discoverer of REM sleep, or rapid eye movement ...

Article: Effect of a Motor Learning Task on REM Sleep ...
Sleep and Hypnosis;  April 1, 2006 ;     700+ words ... ... learning of procedural tasks enhance REM sleep. An experiment in which eleven subjects ... learning a motor task exerts no effect on REM sleep parameters and, therefore, the results ... procedural skill is related to an increase in REM sleep parameters. One might speculate that ...

Article: Can dreaming unfreeze Parkinson's disease? A study of patients ...
Sleep Review;  June 1, 2008 ;     700+ words ... ... sleep, restless legs syndrome, obstructive sleep apnea syndrome, and REM sleep behavior disorder. (1) REM sleep behavior disorder is a very interesting disorder of REM sleep. In a nutshell, people are normally paralyzed during REM sleep ...

Article: REM Sleep and Visuo-Motor Skill Learning: A ...
Sleep and Hypnosis;  April 1, 2007 ;     700+ words ... ... findings support the association with REM sleep but other studies linked motor learning ... improvement is related to the amount of REM sleep but not to any other sleep stage and ... 59) Key words: Procedural memory, REM sleep, dream content INTRODUCTION Since the ...

Article: Change in Rapid Eye Movement (REM) Sleep in ...
Archives of Environmental Health;  September 1, 1999 ;     700+ words ... ... Non-rapid-eye-movement (REM) sleep, especially slow-wave sleep ... recovery from fatigue, and the non-REM sleep stages are likely deeper as the stage number increases. However, REM sleep, which is needed for physical recovery ...

Article: Rapid Eye Movement (REM) sleep behavior disorder: A ...
The Israel Journal of Psychiatry and Related Sciences;  January 1, 2002 ;     700+ words ...Abstract: Rapid Eye Movement (REM) sleep behavior disorder is characterized by ... continuous high chin EMG tonus during REM sleep. We did not observe any violent motor ... recordings. Phasic activities during REM sleep were high but density quantification ...