Interesting perspective here from two giants in the sleep field—microarousals during NREM sleep that last 3-15 seconds are usually thought of in the context of sleep disorders, but new research shows they are correlated with normal, healthy restorative sleep too.
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The Transmitter
Brief, seconds-long microarousals during deep sleep “ride on the wave” of locus coeruleus activity and correlate with periods of waste clearing and memory consolidation, new research suggests.
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