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In most animals, slow-wave sleep is characterized by high amplitude, low frequency EEG readings. This is also known as the desynchronized state of the brain, or deep sleep. In USWS, only one hemisphere exhibits the deep sleep EEG while the other hemisphere exhibits an EEG typical of wakefulness with a low amplitude and high frequency.
Like other marine mammals, seals sleep in water with half of their brain awake so that they can detect and escape from predators, as well as surface for air without fully waking. When they are asleep on land, both sides of their brain go into sleep mode.
Eared seals, like whales, show unihemispheric sleep. The sleeping half of the brain does not awaken when they surface to breathe. When one half of a seal's brain shows slow-wave sleep, the flippers and whiskers on its opposite side are immobile. While in the water, these seals have almost no REM sleep and may go a week or two without it.
Isaac Newton, one of the most intelligent men in history, discovered gravity, proposed laws of motion, invented telescope and developed calculus mainly because he was driven by curiosity. His ...
The study found that several sleep characteristics, including sleep quality, early morning awakening, and difficulty falling asleep or staying asleep, were linked to accelerated brain aging ...
Unlike most animals, whales are conscious breathers. All mammals sleep, but whales cannot afford to become unconscious for long because they may drown. They are believed to exhibit unihemispheric slow-wave sleep, in which they sleep with half of the brain while the other half remains active. This behaviour was only documented in toothed whales ...
The general phenomenon, called the "first night effect," has long been known to scientists who observed the abnormal brain pattern in participants of sleep experiments, notes Forbes.
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