Article: Are you sleep-deprived?

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 ... a motor task exerts no effect on REM sleep parameters and, therefore, the ... skill is related to an increase in REM sleep parameters. One might speculate ...

Article: Can dreaming unfreeze Parkinson's disease? A study of patients ...
Sleep Review;  June 1, 2008 ;     700+ words ... ... 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 ...

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 ... Key words: Procedural memory, REM sleep, dream content INTRODUCTION Since ...

Change in Rapid Eye Movement (REM) Sleep in Response to ...
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: REM sleep enhances creative problem solving more ...
Asian News International;  June 9, 2009 ;     659 words ... ... napping says that Rapid Eye Movement (REM) sleep enhances creative problem-solving ... implications for how sleep, specifically REM sleep, fosters the formation of associative ... However, for new problems, only REM sleep enhances creativity, said Mednick ...

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 ... continuous high chin EMG tonus during REM sleep. We did not observe any violent ... recordings. Phasic activities during REM sleep were high but density quantification ...

Article: Detecting REM sleep via blood flow in finger might ...
Biotech Week;  July 2, 2003 ;     700+ words ... ... identifies the onset and duration of REM sleep by tracking changes in the blood ... movement, EEG, EMG - of detecting REM sleep, Watch Pat 100 reads the peripheral ... in the peripheral arteries during REM sleep. "Increased resistance to blood ...