• One important kind of sleep, called slow wave sleep, gets shorter as people age.

    FORBES: Sleep On Demand

  • But some epilepsy medicines, including Neurontin from Pfizer and Gabitril from Cephalon (nasdaq: CEPH - news - people ), may also help slow wave sleep.

    FORBES: Sleep On Demand

  • That drug appears similar to Ambien, Estorra and indiplon, but it also increases the deep slow wave of sleep.

    FORBES: Sleep On Demand

  • It is the movement of potassium (and also sodium) ions that causes the electrical impulses that nerve cells carry including the impulses found in slow-wave sleep.

    ECONOMIST: Memory formation

  • Their study shows that as young people grow older they spend less of their sleeping time in slow wave or deep sleep.

    BBC: Sleep linked to ageing

  • First the team showed that they could use the state of a region of the brain, called the medial prefronal cortex, to predict how much deep, or slow-wave, sleep a person would have.

    BBC: Boosting sleep 'may slow memory rot'

  • In earlier experiments, designed to replicate normal learning, Dr Tononi found that the part of the brain showing most slow-wave activity during sleep was the same as the part that had been activated during the experiment.

    ECONOMIST: Memory formation

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