paradoxical sleep

See REM sleep.

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paradoxical sleep

(Physiology) physiol sleep that appears to be deep but that is characterized by a brain wave pattern similar to that of wakefulness, rapid eye movements, and heavier breathing

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paradoxical sleep - a recurring sleep state during which dreaming occurs; a state of rapidly shifting eye movements during sleep

rapid eye movement, rapid eye movement sleep, REM, REM sleep

sleep, slumber - a natural and periodic state of rest during which consciousness of the world is suspended; "he didn't get enough sleep last night"; "calm as a child in dreamless slumber"

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[USA], Jan 29 (ANI): A recent study has uncovered a link between paradoxical sleep and genes involved in brain cell death and survival.

Paradoxical sleep linked to brain cell death and survival: Study

The bullied mice showed many more bouts of paradoxical sleep and a flattening of body temperature fluctuations, also an effect seen in people with depression.

Drug to help beat bullies; study claims stress blockers can combat victims' sleep problems and depression

Dubray, "Vocalization thresholds related to noxious paw pressure are decreased by paradoxical sleep deprivation and increased after sleep recovery in rat," Neuroscience Letters, vol.

Serum and Brain Metabolomic Variations Reveal Perturbation of Sleep Deprivation on Rats and Ameliorate Effect of Total Ginsenoside Treatment

REMS or paradoxical sleep is characterized by low-voltage rapid EEG activity together with the absence of muscle tone and a significant 0 rhythm (4-9 Hz) (28).

Sleep disorders in shift workers in the emergency department and efficacy of melatonin

Their topics include teaching dream interviewing for clinical practice, empirical research and clinical implications of the continuity between waking and dreaming, dream incubating: targeting dreaming to focus on particular issues, finding gender differences in dream reports, dreams as thinking in a different biochemical state, the manifest dream report and clinical change, post-traumatic nightmares from scientific evidence to clinical significance, emerging concepts in nightmare therapy from sleep medicine, positive aspects of the classic nightmare, cross-cultural aspects of extraordinary dreams, and lucid dreaming: metaconsciousness during paradoxical sleep. ([umlaut] Ringgold, Inc., Portland, OR)

Dream Research: Contributions to Clinical Practice

Processing of learned information in paradoxical sleep: Relevance for memory.

Retinal disorders and sleep disorders: are they genetically related?

Paradoxical sleep may be fragmented and/or reduced by the seizures, albeit with no rebound.

The sleep-wakefulness cycle of Wistar rats with spontaneous absence-like epilepsy/O ciclo vigilia-sono de ratos Wistar portadores de epilepsia espontanea tipo ausencia

For this reason, they call the phase paradoxical sleep....

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Exogenous excitation of PPT cholinergic cells can increase wakefulness and/or paradoxical sleep (PS) in a dose-dependent manner (2), while episodes of spontaneous waking and PS are accompanied by increased activity of cholinergic neurons (3,4).

Sleep pattern and learning in knockdown mice with reduced cholinergic neurotransmission