What is the sleep cycle?
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Being Patient
| October 21st, 2020
Throughout the night, you’ll cycle into light sleep, deep sleep, light sleep and then REM. You have about four to five of those cycles…
How does sleep impact the formation of memories?
By
Being Patient
| October 21st, 2020
There’s this theory, probably the one that most people in the sleep field support, called the synaptic homeostasis hypothesis. It’s this idea that during…
Could improved sleep by itself can reduce the risk for Alzheimer’s disease?
By
Being Patient
| October 21st, 2020
There is some causal evidence that would be the case. They’ve done a study where they’ve sleep deprived people and saw there’s an increase…
Why do people with dementia have disrupted sleep patterns?
By
Being Patient
| October 21st, 2020
Based on my experience and what I’ve observed and knowing for a fact that melatonin production decreases as we age when somebody has a…
What type of sleep is most important?
By
Being Patient
| October 21st, 2020
All parts of sleep are important. I’m not a medical doctor so I don’t give clinical advice on how to sleep, but there are…
How do sleep drugs work?
By
Being Patient
| October 21st, 2020
Different sleep drugs have different mechanisms of action and they will often sort of mimic different aspects of sleep. I think that people’s physicians…
Are sleep trackers accurate?
By
Being Patient
| October 21st, 2020
The way we really define sleep is purely based on the electrical activity of the brain, so the trackers are doing the best that…
What happens to cerebrospinal fluid during sleep?
By
Being Patient
| October 21st, 2020
Our study used brain imaging to look at what’s happening in cerebrospinal fluid in the brain during sleep, and that’s a liquid that envelops…
What happens in your brain while you’re sleeping?
By
Being Patient
| October 21st, 2020
I think the way that I would think of it is that there may be things happening at different stages, maybe that microglia are…
How does dementia affect sleep?
By
Being Patient
| October 21st, 2020
In terms of the link with dementia, I think it is pretty well established now that sleep really is altered in patients with dementia…
What happens to brain fluid while you’re sleeping?
By
Being Patient
| October 21st, 2020
Most of our data was in a sub-stage of non REM called M2 sleep and that’s kind of an intermediate sleep, and we saw…
How long does REM sleep last?
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Being Patient
| October 21st, 2020
For non-REM, usually, you spend about 70% of it in this intermediate stage and about 15% in light sleep and 15% in deep sleep….
How does sleep impact the formation of memories?
By
Being Patient
| October 21st, 2020
Is it possible to “catch up on sleep” after a period of sleep deprivation?
By
Being Patient
| October 21st, 2020
Could improved sleep by itself can reduce the risk for Alzheimer’s disease?
By
Being Patient
| October 21st, 2020