Example sentences for: wakefulness

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  • Clonidine increased the time rats spent in the drowsy stage of wakefulness, which corresponds to behavioral sedation and inhibited REM sleep for 6-9 h after administration [ 17].

  • A mathematical algorithm was used to quantify the sleep-wake dependent dynamics of delta power during both baseline and recovery from SD [ 10 ] . In this algorithm, delta power decreases during NREMS and increases during wakefulness according to saturating exponential functions, the time constants of which are estimated by minimizing the square of the differences between empirical (delta power) data and the values produced by the mathematical functions.

  • , sleep deprivation), although a similar relationship between sleep parameters and spontaneous wakefulness can be quantified under baseline conditions as well [ 10 11 ] . The compensatory responses in time spent asleep, sleep consolidation (i.e.

  • , sleep bout duration; [ 12 ] ), and/or sleep intensity observed after an extended period of wakefulness are all taken as evidence that sleep drive is increased during wakefulness and thus that sleep is homeostatically regulated.

  • Homeostatic regulation of sleep can be quantified objectively after a period of enforced wakefulness (i.e.


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