How to Use slow-wave sleep in a Sentence
slow-wave sleep
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Deep sleep, also known as slow-wave sleep, is the deepest stage of sleep.
—Nick Blackmer, Verywell Health, 7 Nov. 2023
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That prepares you for the next stage -- a deep, slow-wave sleep, also known as delta sleep.
—Sandee Lamotte, CNN, 12 Jan. 2022
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This worked only if they had been exposed to the rose odour during learning, and had smelled it during slow-wave sleep.
—Sadie Witkowski, Smithsonian, 16 Feb. 2018
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Falling into slow-wave sleep, or deep sleep, is an important step in that process and sleep routines help pave the way.
—Byalexa Mikhail, Fortune, 19 Oct. 2022
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What this paper doesn't explain, and doesn't try to, is dreaming, REM sleep, which is very different to slow-wave sleep.
—Neuroskeptic, Discover Magazine, 21 Aug. 2011
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Another important stage of sleep is deep sleep, when your brain waves slow into what is called delta waves or slow-wave sleep.
—Sandee Lamotte, CNN, 25 June 2020
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Next, participants slept in the lab, and the experimenters waited until the deepest stage of sleep (slow-wave sleep) to once again expose them to the odour.
—Sadie Witkowski, Smithsonian, 16 Feb. 2018
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Waking up during slow-wave sleep, which makes up the majority of your 1.5- to 2-hour sleep cycles, can leave you feeling groggy the next day.
—Amanda MacMillan, Outside Online, 30 Dec. 2014
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The researchers say the association between the issues and your optimal sleep time may have something to do with slow-wave sleep.
—Joshua Hawkins, BGR, 5 May 2022
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Those awakened from slow-wave sleep are groggy and disoriented.
—Carl Zimmer, New York Times, 7 June 2018
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Sleep quality often decreases during the aging process, due to less slow-wave sleep (also known as deep sleep).
—Allison Futterman, Discover Magazine, 3 Jan. 2022
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People with severe sleep apnea who spent less time in deep, also known as slow-wave sleep, had more damage to the white matter of the brain than people who had more slow-wave sleep, according to the study.
—Sandee Lamotte, CNN, 10 May 2023
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The researchers discovered that eating more saturated fat and less fiber from foods like vegetables, fruits and whole grains led to reductions in slow-wave sleep, which is the deep, restorative kind.
—Star Tribune, 8 Jan. 2021
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Aromatherapy using lavender oil may also increase time spent in deep, slow-wave sleep.
—Meghan Overdeep, Southern Living, 20 Aug. 2020
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Video gaming has been linked to declines in verbal memory and restorative slow-wave sleep in school-aged children, but it has also been shown to improve motor performance and spatial abilities.
—Sandee Lamotte, CNN, 23 Sep. 2019
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One study found the pink noise cocktail increased deep or slow-wave sleep and improved memory in a few people with existing cognitive impairment, but the results were much stronger in cognitively healthy adults in their 70s.
—Sandee Lamotte, CNN, 3 May 2021
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Doing so prepares us for the third stage — a deep, slow-wave sleep where the body is restoring itself on a cellular level, fixing damage from the day’s wear and tear and consolidating memories into long-term storage.
—Sandee Lamotte, CNN, 13 Mar. 2023
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One study, published in the Journal of Clinical Sleep Medicine, found that participants with a higher intake of fiber and lower consumption of sugar and saturated fat spent more time in restorative, slow-wave sleep.
—Cynthia Sass, Mph, Health.com, 3 July 2019
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For example, two toxic substrates flushed during slow-wave sleep include beta Amyloid and tau, protein pieces that occur in greater quantities in patients with Alzheimer’s disease.
—Mackenzie Wagoner, Vogue, 18 Oct. 2022
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People’s brains produce less slow-wave sleep after age 40, according to György Buzsáki of Rutgers University.
—Andrew Grant, Discover Magazine, 27 June 2010
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Mednick said subjects on the drug typically would lose out on slow-wave sleep, or deep sleep, which is related to memory consolidation and physical and mental restoration.
—Lilly Nguyen, Daily Pilot, 10 Sep. 2019
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Doing so prepares us for the third stage — a deep, slow-wave sleep where the body is literally restoring itself on a cellular level, fixing damage from the day’s wear and tear and consolidating memories into long-term storage.
—Sandee Lamotte, CNN, 20 Jan. 2023
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Doing so prepares us for the third stage – a deep, slow-wave sleep where the body is literally restoring itself on a cellular level – fixing damage from the day’s wear and tear and consolidating memories into long-term storage.
—Sandee Lamotte, CNN, 27 Sep. 2022
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Of particular note: The deep, almost ethereal bass tones meant to promote slow-wave sleep, a phase that’s responsible for consolidating memory and learning as brain waves oscillate at the supremely mellow frequency of 10Hz.
—Corey Seymour, Vogue, 30 Mar. 2018
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