Sunlight leads to wakefulness; cooler temperatures push people toward sleep.
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Drugs keep everyone asleep, except during their hours of wakefulness.
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CBD seems in some studies to promote wakefulness rather than sleep.
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Wakefulness, that galloping horse, had fallen to the ground underneath me.
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Perhaps, after all, sleep, not wakefulness, constitutes the mind's default mode.
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Some studies suggest that sleep primes synapses for greater activity during wakefulness.
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You're stuck somewhere in between dreaming and wakefulness, and you can't move.
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Dayvigo may lead to complex sleep behaviors and can impair daytime wakefulness.
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Dayvigo may lead to complex sleep behaviors and can impair daytime wakefulness.
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So if you wanted an hour of wakefulness you'd type "caffeinate -t 3600".
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"His neurological condition can best be described as a unresponsive wakefulness," said Kanter.
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Just as it appears he's dozing off, he jerks to a half-wakefulness.
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Meghan Schmuck, an undergrad studying nutrition at the University of Arkansas, prioritized wakefulness.
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It was much worse that the message had ambushed her during her own wakefulness.
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For too long, sleep has been undervalued, seen as an inconvenient distraction from wakefulness.
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Oki caressed Mui to wakefulness, tapped a digital icon representing a door, and waited.
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That night, a few hours after going to bed, Tamir shook Jacob into wakefulness.
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Indeed, a 2015 study of twins found that wakefulness is significantly heritable, especially in women.
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And we are told, in Ms. Park's forceful, breathy voice, that the wakefulness is exhilarating.
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Sleep++ leverages the accelerometer in your Watch to register deep sleep, light sleep, restlessness and wakefulness.
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Add "-t xx" to specify a duration for the wakefulness, with "xx" the number of seconds.
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His physicians said he suffered from unresponsive wakefulness, a condition also known as persistent vegetative state.
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By the next morning, Gordon was heavily sedated and was drifting in and out of wakefulness.
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This area regulates the amount of sleep- and wakefulness-modulating hormones (such as melatonin) your brain releases.
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An estimated 50 to 70 million US adults have sleep or wakefulness disorders, according to the CDC.
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His treating physicians said he suffered from unresponsive wakefulness, a condition also known as persistent vegetative state.
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Usually we pass through this state of half-wakefulness on our way to deep sleep within minutes.
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Even though they're asleep, they're still processing the external world, which gives the subjective feeling of wakefulness.
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Overall, the analysis included 14 drug studies, mostly looking at stimulants or drugs designed to promote wakefulness.
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As your brain transitions from wakefulness to sleep (it's called hypnagogia), lucid thoughts, dreaming and creativity occur.
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The graduated extinction approach even significantly reduced nighttime wakefulness and led to a moderate decrease in maternal stress.
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He stood, and for a moment, she went silent, moving up toward wakefulness before the deep breath returned.
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The brain activity of people with depression looks different during sleep and wakefulness than that of healthy people.
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As someone who typically falls into the latter camp, I appreciate the acknowledgement of middle-of-the-night wakefulness.
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It never caresses or croons lullabies, but instead hisses innuendos into the wee hours, turning wakefulness into a wake.
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Of course, Adderall is also used to treat narcolepsy and to facilitate wakefulness in soldiers, among many other things.
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A 2012 study says heat exposure increases wakefulness and decreases slow wave sleep along with rapid eye movement sleep.
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For now, anyone recalling nudges from grandma urging wakefulness through tedious sermons should consider that she may have been right.
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For $10 a month, it offers these and other hypnotic monologues, designed to promote peace in both sleep and wakefulness.
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The first few minutes of Rob Roth's new multimedia piece, "Soundstage," deftly evoke the fleeting transition from wakefulness to dreaming.
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The exact pathway isn't well understood, but it's believed melatonin broadly suppresses the areas of the brain involved in wakefulness.
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We have data to show that you—I mean self-professed poor sleepers—often overestimate the extent of nighttime wakefulness.
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In Apple's feature, there is simply sleep and wakefulness; a bedtime and the time your alarm goes off in the morning.
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With the clock ticking, the DLR's lander team made a last-ditch attempt to stir the probe into wakefulness on Sunday.
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According to the FDA, modafinil is intended to bolster "wakefulness" in people with narcolepsy, obstructive sleep apnea or shift work disorder.
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Last week, his treating physicians in Cincinnati said he suffered from unresponsive wakefulness, a condition also known as persistent vegetative state.
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"It was almost a brainwave pattern typically just seen in wakefulness that was riding on top of sleep brainwaves," he says.
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Unresponsive wakefulness On Tuesday, Warmbier's parents described what they saw when they approached the plane that returned their son in June.
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In a class on the brain, an instructor mentioned a neural pathway, the reticular activating system, that was associated with wakefulness.
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The lights weren't enough to wake me up on their own, but they helped me ease into wakefulness as I snoozed.
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It sounds a lot like the imagery on Process, in which the narrative takes place somewhere between wakefulness, death, and dreaming.
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To Meredith's surprise, the genetically altered mice that were incapable of deactivating their BK channels exhibited more wakefulness during the day.
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Tony Stark builds a few dozen new Iron Man suits after PTSD throttles him into perpetual wakefulness in Iron Man 3.
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He was sent home last week suffering from brain damage and in what U.S. doctors called a state of unresponsive wakefulness.
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Ms. Rothstein, the sleep ambassador, is less bothered by privacy concerns than by the temptation to wakefulness that phone interfaces pose.
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In a news conference, doctors called his condition "unresponsive wakefulness," and revealed he had suffered significant brain damage during his imprisonment.
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The molecular mechanisms behind sleep and wakefulness, and their ties to light exposure, helped establish the backbone of 21st century sleep science.
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During unresponsive wakefulness, the brain functions that control spontaneous breathing, heartbeat and blood pressure, urine production, metabolism and digestion continue, Glatter explained.
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In June, doctors at the University of Cincinnati Medical Center described his state as "unresponsive wakefulness," a product of this brain damage.
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MDMA in particular can induce this, through its interference with the neurotransmitters dopamine and norepinephrine, which are involved in wakefulness, Winter says.
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When I enjoyed those hours of wakefulness, I no longer tried to sleep, and when I stopped trying to sleep, I slept.
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The so-called "window of circadian low" — the hours when the body is least adapted for wakefulness — typically occurs between 29 a.m.
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Modafinil, intended to promote wakefulness with a lower risk of addiction than amphetamines, has become popular as a so-called smart drug.
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In a person with narcolepsy, the neurotransmitters responsible for controlling sleep have died, blurring the divide between wakefulness and sleep, dreaming and seeing.
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"SLEEP" draws the reader into her surreal world, where all separation between wakefulness and sleep, life and death, internal and external have collapsed.
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"Light is the strongest stimulus to the reticular activating system," Dr. Rodrigues told me, referring to the system that regulates your sleepiness/wakefulness.
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Our brain cells work in cycles too, becoming increasingly excitable in response to stimuli during wakefulness, with this excitability dissipating when we sleep.
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Update Circadian science, newly embraced by airlines, hotels and airport lounges, prescribes bright light for wakefulness and warm light to prepare to rest.
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"During sleep, the brain clears out metabolic waste products accumulating during wakefulness, which is important for the maintenance of brain health," Benedict said.
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But after having worked for four days on the problem without much rest, the boundary between sleep and wakefulness must have been pretty blurred.
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The technical name for the awareness of the brief period between wakefulness and sleep is hypnagogia, and its something of a mystery for neuroscientists.
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These 80 are simply a list of candidates when it comes to identifying the players in the brain's recording of sleep and wakefulness, Liu said.
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This means, for example, planning meals strategically to maximize her wakefulness for important tasks, like driving, since eating can contribute to her excessive daytime sleepiness.
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Their hypothesis is that this liminal period between wakefulness and sleep is a fount of creativity that is usually lost in the ocean of sleep.
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It did find that modafinil helped short-term sleep-deprived people maintain wakefulness, memory and an ability to get things done more than a placebo.
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Research has shown that that's important for sleep because light interferes with the body's production of melatonin, the hormone that helps regulate sleep and wakefulness.
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"It's the truthfulness of her insight, her critical wakefulness, her fighting power and her creativity," she said, adding, "She gives a voice to the discriminated."
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Multiple studies have shown that gum chewing can boost concentration, wakefulness and memory because of increased blood flow, and with it, oxygen, to the brain.
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I just like to, you know, check my stuff: last thing before bed, first thing in the morning and upon every overnight flash of wakefulness.
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It's best to work out around six hours before you go to bed as your body stays overheated for several hours after vigorous exercise, causing wakefulness.
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Warmbier had not spoken or moved in any purposeful way since his return, a condition his doctors called "unresponsive wakefulness" also known as persistent vegetative state.
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When his connectome stutters into digital wakefulness, it begins to shape a world around itself, giving rise to what those in meatspace come to call Bitworld.
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People can be in various stages of sleep or sleepiness during their waking day and during their sleeping night can be in various stages of wakefulness.
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"Narcolepsy has given us a thread we can pull on to unravel a lot about what underlies the systems that govern wakefulness and sleep," he says.
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Dan Reardon, a medical doctor who founded FitnessGenes, said that, anecdotally, slow metabolizers who drink coffee tend to report a very gradual wakefulness, sometimes lasting hours.
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And far, far better and more efficacious in inducing wakefulness and good cheer than ever was gin, pink or otherwise, most especially when taken before breakfast.
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They even went as far as testing different durations of sleep deprivation, and showed that, during torpor, sleep debt accumulates 2.75 times slower than during wakefulness.
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It means our experience of day and night, sleep and wakefulness, is not just a human quirk but a sign we're part of the natural world too.
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Defining just what hypnagogia is is tricky because people in this state exhibit behaviors characteristic of sleep and wakefulness, both from their own perspective and to outsiders.
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The cells in question are also the only ones in the brain that express a type of protein called orexins (also known as hypocretins) that regulate wakefulness.
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According to Andrea Meredith, a Maryland professor of Physiology who led the study, during the day these BK channels were inactive and inhibited wakefulness in the mice.
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He was gazed at tremulously and kissed into wakefulness by the ugly duckling, Barbra Streisand (more than one myth of beauty was at play here, it seems).
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If all else fails, sleep-restriction therapy can be effective even after a week or two, especially at eliminating prolonged wakefulness in the middle of the night.
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"His neurological condition can best be described as a state of unresponsive wakefulness," said Dr. Daniel Kanter, the medical director at the center's Neuroscience Intensive Care Unit.
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An estimated 50 to 70 million US adults have sleep or wakefulness disorders, according to the CDC, and millions more intermittent experience periods when they suffer with sleep.
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"What's so exciting about Belsomra is that it is very selective for blocking wakefulness, so it doesn't affect the systems that control balance, memory and cognition," he says.
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In simple terms: Instead of clearing the flu, the immune system instead attacks brain cells that produce hypocretin, a protein-like molecule that helps the brain regulate wakefulness.
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Circadian science, newly embraced by airlines, hotels and airport lounges in the form of light therapy, prescribes bright light for wakefulness and warm light to prepare to rest.
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While the experience of pain, both in wakefulness and sleep, is thought to be produced by the brain, it's a gray area that no one yet fully understands.
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He was brought back to the United States last week in a coma with brain damage, in what doctors described as state of "unresponsive wakefulness," and died on Monday.
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"Some animals seem to indicate a unique sleep state, which is called unihemispheric sleep, where one brain hemisphere shows wakefulness and the other shows deep sleep," Tamaki told Motherboard.
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We're facing a future in which our sense of the divide between sleep and wakefulness will fade along with the distinction between our devices' states of on and off.
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But the Maryland team's study was the first to link it to the regulation of circadian rhythms, shedding some critical light on the mysterious transition between sleep and wakefulness.
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Dr. Pullen explained that pitolisant is a highly selective drug that acts on histamine 3 (H-3) receptors in the brain, enhancing the activity of neurons that improve wakefulness.
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His work showed that the receptor plays a role in anxiety and increased wakefulness, so he isn't surprised to see that it might be involved in sleep regulation too.
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Others were diagnosed with unresponsive wakefulness syndrome, a condition where people can be awake, but without showing signs of voluntary movement (this is commonly referred to as a vegetative state).
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The sleep/wake homeostasis balances the drive for sleep and wakefulness, while the circadian biological clock is what makes you sleepy or feel awake at different points in the day.
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He and his colleagues once did an experiment in which volunteers agreed to alternate 30 minutes of sleep with 60 minutes of wakefulness for two and a half days straight.
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At that time, Warmbier continued to suffer from "unresponsive wakefulness," also known as a persistent vegetative state, meaning he was awake at times but not aware of his surroundings or himself.
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The author of that 1992 study — the one that proved the innateness of segmented sleep — described dorveille as a state of "nonanxious wakefulness," which truly sounds oxymoronic until you experience it.
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The biology of sleep and wakefulness is complex, involving not just the one neural circuit I learned about in medical school but numerous pathways in the brain and countless chemical mediators.
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There's something meditative about doing nothing but sitting and focusing, eyes closed, imagination firing on all cylinders; it raises the zen state of lower wakefulness achieved by moviegoers to the Nth degree.
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While their opposing effects on wakefulness and heart rate can sometimes cancel each other out and may even reduce risk in some instances, in other cases, this can simply overload the system.
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Unresponsive wakefulness is a syndrome in which someone has no awareness of their surroundings, despite perhaps his eyes being open, blinking or looking around, CNN Chief Medical Correspondent Dr. Sanjay Gupta said.
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As he drifted off to sleep, his muscles would relax and he would inevitably drop the balls on the floor and the noise from the fall would jolt him back to wakefulness.
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The rashes flamed all over her arms and legs, pinpricking her into constant wakefulness at night and screaming if exposed too much to the sun and dust and wind during the day.
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They are found in the hypothalamus, a small, evolutionarily ancient and unbelievably important structure that helps regulate many of the body's basic operations, including the daily see-saw between wakefulness and sleep.
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But, my own work at the University of Bologna in Italy has supported the idea that brain activity during torpor or hibernation is more similar to wakefulness than it is to sleep.
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To lead someone else into that vulnerable space between wakefulness and dreams, you need to be simultaneously calm and wildly imaginative, or what Ackerman calls ''the good type of weird but not creepy.
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In the business and tech world, getting little sleep used to be something to boast about, an attitude University of Pennsylvania professor Alan Derickson coined "manly wakefulness" in his 2460 book Dangerously Sleepy.
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About 50 million to 70 million people in the U.S. have a sleep or wakefulness disorder, according to the Center for Disease Control and Prevention, making it a compelling opportunity for technology entrepreneurs.
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Generic drugmaker Ranbaxy Laboratories has agreed to settle lawsuits accusing it of accepting payments from pharmaceutical company Cephalon Inc to delay the release of a generic version of the latter's wakefulness drug Provigil.
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By analyzing the subtle changes in the frequencies of reflected radio frequency (RF) signals as they bounce off a sleeping patient, the system can match them to the various phases of sleep, including wakefulness.
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The symptoms of narcolepsy, especially cataplexy, are caused by having incredibly low levels of hypocretin (also called orexin), a chemical produced in the brain that helps govern our sense of wakefulness, among other things.
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"Hypnagogic imagery or hallucinations is a normal state of consciousness in the transition from wakefulness to sleep," Valdas Noreika, a psychologist at Cambridge who was not involved with Dormio, told me in an email.
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"The description of the brass egg says its power comes from its material, as brass "has been said to have healing properties to boost the immune system while also increasing melatonin (sleep and wakefulness).
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Injections of this molecule into narcoleptic mice significantly improves their wakefulness and cataplexy and reduces the abundance of the REM stage of sleep in which most dreaming occurs (one of the characteristics of narcolepsy).
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"In mice, it seems that rocking acts through the vestibular system (the sensory system responsible for balance and spatial orientation) and impinges directly on the sleep circuitry, stopping mice from maintaining their wakefulness," Kompotis said.
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Of course, it's possible you're simply paying more attention to the kicks when you're finally lying down to rest — and anyway, these bouts of wakefulness are great training for the newborn phase that's to come.
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Scientists speculate that these brief periods of wakefulness might have evolved so that we do not place ourselves in danger while asleep—suffocating under bedding, for example, or being vulnerable to attack by a predator.
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Like Linklater on Waking Life, Hulsing understands how this particular style of animation can capture a feeling between sleep and wakefulness and how it shows that some stories can only be told in that space.
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As a child, my wakefulness was a matter of personal pride, a badge of honor signifying a shrewd vigilance (should any ghoul dare intrude upon my bedroom by night, it would meet with a grisly fate).
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Hibernation is a state characterized by the active inhibition of metabolism, and in this state, the activity of the brain differs substantially from sleep and may in fact be closer to wakefulness than many people realize.
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California's attorney general on Monday said Teva Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd had reached a $69 million settlement resolving claims it engaged in an anticompetitive scheme that delayed the release of cheaper generic versions of the wakefulness drug Provigil.
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And defining this line between a minimally-conscious state and unresponsive wakefulness syndrome—the next step down, clinically speaking—means being able to detect the potential for if not predict the return of consciousness following brain injury.
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Some dream episodes occur during what is known as "mixed-state sleep" — when the boundaries between wakefulness and sleep become fragmented, said Dr. Carlos H. Schenck, a psychiatrist and sleep expert at the University of Minnesota Medical School.
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I question whether any voice I hear over the phone is actually real, despite being digitally extrapolated based on the original voice, a hundred sneezes and days of fatigue where the line between wakefulness and sleep is blurred.
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" In a press conference Thursday, Dr. Daniel Kanter, professor of neurology and director of the Neurocritical Care Program, said Otto Warmbier has "severe injury to all regions of the brain" and described his current condition as "unresponsive wakefulness.
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One interpretation might be that wakefulness depletes the levels of neurotransmitters close to the synapse; in that case, phosphorylation might both regulate the arrival of new supplies and in some fashion mark how active the brain has been.
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Meraj kept waking up and falling asleep on the bunk across (they both had top bunks), and Shockie considered him with pity, surprise, even tenderness: People were closest to animals when they were sleeping and fighting for wakefulness.
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Maybe that's why greats such as Salvador Dali, chess grandmaster Josh Waitzkin, and Edgar Allen Poe used naps to induce hypnagogia, a state of awareness between sleep and wakefulness that helped them access a deeper level of creativity.
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A federal judge has declined to certify a class of drug wholesalers who accuse generic drugmaker Ranbaxy Laboratories of illegally accepting payments from Cephalon Inc to delay the release of a generic version of the wakefulness drug Provigil.
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Yet thanks to new research coming out of the University of Maryland School of Medicine, scientists were able to identify the key neural mechanisms regulating our transitions between wakefulness and sleep, shedding some light on this elusive phenomenon.
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In fact, the idea that hibernation is more similar to wakefulness than it is to sleep is the subject of a recent study conducted by me and some of my colleagues at the University of Bologna in Italy.
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I daydream on the idea that maybe all this barbarism and all these transgressions against ourselves is an equal and opposite reaction to something better happening in this world, some great swelling wave of openness and wakefulness out here.
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This may be why individuals like Browner still insist CBD is a solid sleep aide—"CBD feels like someone you love just gave you a nice, warm hug," she says—and reject the idea it might promote wakefulness, as researchers suggest.
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The document includes allegations that Dr. Jackson regularly distributed Ambien, a prescription sleep aid, to members of the White House staff and members of the news media flying on long overseas trips, as well as another prescription drug to promote wakefulness.
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People sleeping in the lab nearer to the day of a full moon also had lower evening levels of melatonin, a hormone important to circadian rhythm that drives the body's cycles of day and night and, therefore, wakefulness and sleep.
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In another adrenaline-boosting pastime, novice bungee jumpers not only reported increased feelings of wellbeing, wakefulness and euphoria just after completing a jump, they also had raised levels of endorphins in the blood, well known to produce feelings of intense pleasure.
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So far Horowitz has tested the device on 8 subjects and found that it is able to reliably maximize the amount of time users spend suspended between wakefulness and sleep, as well as shape the content of the microdreams they experience.
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UnitedHealth Group is bound by a $125 million settlement between Teva Pharmaceutical Industries and several insurance companies resolving claims that Cephalon Inc, later bought by Teva, suppressed competition for its wakefulness drug Provigil, a federal judge in Pennsylvania has ruled.
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Otto Warmbier, a University of Virginia student who was returned to the United States this week after being held in North Korea for 17 months, has a severe brain injury and is in a state of "unresponsive wakefulness," doctors said.
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The questions were relevant not just to flies: All organisms, including humans, operate on 19753-hour rhythms that control not only sleep and wakefulness but also physiology generally, including blood pressure and heart rate, alertness, body temperature and reaction time.
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At the time of his return last Monday, Warmbier was in a state of "unresponsive wakefulness," and was unable to speak, see, or respond to verbal commands, said medical professionals from the University of Cincinnati Medical Center in a press conference.
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What we now know about orexins also helps explain why losing just a few tens of thousands of cells should result in a disabling, multi-symptomatic disorder like narcolepsy—something that messes with wakefulness and sleep, body temperature, metabolism, feeding, motivation and mood.
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The Illumy Sleep and Wake Mask by Glo to Sleep ($149) uses an app and colored, pulsing light panels to help encourage sleep (a slow, red pulse to simulate a setting sun) or wakefulness (faster, blue pulsing for a gradually brightening morning sky).
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To investigate whether this process might underpin the antidepressant effects of prolonged wakefulness, researchers at Tufts University in Massachusetts took mice with depression-like symptoms and administered high doses of a compound that triggers adenosine receptors, mimicking what happens during sleep deprivation.
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Finally, gradually extend your time in bed by 15 to 30 minutes, allowing a week between each extension, until you are able to get the amount of restful sleep you need with little or no wakefulness in the middle of the night.
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The ensuing ordeal of irregular rest and ad hoc strategies to get some shut-eye (for parents and infants alike) prompted McGirr, a writer and teacher based in Melbourne, Australia, to ponder the very nature of sleep and wakefulness as human conditions.
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Research into the area of chronobiology—the study of how our body regulates sleep and wakefulness—supports the idea that during winter, our sleep needs and preferences change, and the constraints of modern life might be particularly ill-fitting during these months.
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Lawmakers said they have received information that alleges Jackson over-prescribed sleeping medication and wakefulness medication during his tenure, as well as claims that an alleged power struggle with another White House physician decimated morale under his leadership in the White House Medical Unit.
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Brain activity recordings in this kind of suspended animation state did indeed resemble activity during wakefulness, but the activity became slower and slower as body temperature decreased, as if the frames of a movie were being projected slower and slower as the movie progressed.
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Lastly, Amigh moves the viewer through meaning by creating shapes that are themselves visual puzzles and bric-a-brac such as the collection of bits and pieces that come to resemble a wasps' nest in "There is an inner wakefulness that directs the dream" (2017).
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Scientists can say definitively that sleep is a depressed state of consciousness that produces cyclical phases of unique brainwave patterns: wakefulness, followed by drowsiness, then light sleep, deeper sleep (also known as low wave sleep), then finally REM (rapid eye movement), which is when we dream.
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A federal appeals court has ordered a federal judge in Philadelphia to reconsider his order certifying a class of 22 drug wholesalers accusing generic drugmakers Mylan Inc and Ranbaxy Laboratories Ltd of accepting payments from Cephalon Inc to delay generic versions of Cephalon's wakefulness drug Provigil.
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"During the psychedelic state, the electrical activity of the brain is less predictable and less 'integrated' than during normal conscious wakefulness—as measured by 'global signal diversity,'" Anil Seth, co-director of the Sackler Centre for Consciousness Science at the University of Sussex, said in a release.
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After a punishing night, when I use a fine-pointed brush to apply Clé de Peau Beauté concealer to my red-rimmed lower lashline, I am trying to fake wakefulness; I cannot fault a man who would, taking my illusion at face value, rush to celebrate his own wokefulness.
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After whistleblowers raised multiple questions about Jackson's management style and medical practices (he was known as "the candy man" for handing out prescription sleep and wakefulness aids on overseas trips and there were reports of drunkenness on those trips), Jackson removed his nomination and was also removed as Trump's personal doctor.
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As the Maryland team detailed in a recent paper in Nature Communications, in order to determine the neural process regulating transitions between sleep and wakefulness, it focused on the suprachiasmatic nucleus in the hypothalamus, a small group of brain cells long known to be responsible for regulating the body's circadian cycles.
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Mr. Tester said that the committee had also received credible accusations that Dr. Jackson routinely distributed Ambien, a prescription sleep aid, which is not a narcotic, to White House staff and members of the news media flying on long overseas trips, as well as Provigil, a prescription drug for promoting wakefulness.
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"It is thought, and our recent research is in line with this idea, that the neural activity associated with the feeling or experience of pain in dreams can be identical to or at least highly similar to the neural activity associated with the feeling of pain during wakefulness," Baird says.
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One former senior White House aide who traveled regularly with the president said Dr. Jackson was known to be an eager and generous provider of Ambien, a sleep aid, and Provigil, a drug that promotes wakefulness, to staff members on presidential trips, which he would dispense in plastic baggies on Air Force One.
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The three main characters are the young soldier Itt; a middle-aged hospital volunteer, Jen (Jenjira Pongpas Widner, a frequent presence in Mr. Weerasethakul's movies), who sits with Itt while he sleeps and keeps him company during his brief, unpredictable periods of wakefulness; and a younger woman, Keng, the hospital's resident medium, who can "see" the sleeping soldiers' dreams.
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In my case, this oddly gratifying wakefulness seems to have little to do with meditation, handbooks, support groups, yoga classes, breathing exercises, massage, acupuncture, flax seeds, carrot juice, green tea or vitamin C. Has hardly anything to do with being responsible, not complaining, making a nutritious supper, washing the dishes, swabbing the surfaces, taking out the garbage.
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Then, on June 13, 2017: North Korea released Warmbier in a state of "unresponsive wakefulness," according to doctors at the University of Cincinnati Medical Center, who examined him upon his return to the US. In a news conference last week, they disputed the North Korean regime's claims that Warmbier had contracted botulism and slipped into a vegetative state after taking a sleeping pill.
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Its rules dictate that rather than thrashing around in bed, not sleeping, the insomniac whose mind is polluted by looping dark thoughts and sudden lurching panics (the pesticides of wakefulness) should instead get up, switch rooms, attempt to read, make lists, make tea, listen to sleep tapes, meditate but not medicate, put on fresh sleepwear and experiment with soft lighting.
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