NREM


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Noun1.NREM - a recurring sleep state during which rapid eye movements do not occur and dreaming does not occur; accounts for about 75% of normal sleep time
sleep, slumber - a natural and periodic state of rest during which consciousness of the world is suspended; "he didn't get enough sleep last night"; "calm as a child in dreamless slumber"
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Recordings were scored visually every 4 s with Spike2 software (version 7.01; Cambridge Electronic Design) as AW, quiet wakefulness (QW), NREM sleep, and REM sleep.
NREM sleep: During NREM sleep, the long-range brain waves of deep sleep move memory packets of recent experiences from a short-term, more fragile storage area to a safer long-term storage site.
CAP analysis has been performed by detection of electrocortical events with regular intervals in a range of seconds during NREM sleep (6).
Physiological hippocampal or limbic spindles were also reported in subjects having intracerebral EEG recording during NREM sleep (13-16).
REM ODI (rs=0.650, p=0.006), NREM ODI (rs=0.613, p= 0.034), mean Sp[O.sub.2] (rs=-0.646, p=0.007), nadir Sp[O.sub.2] (rs=0.533, p=0.034).
Influence of age and gender on upper airway resistance in NREM and REM sleep.
The Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Management (NREM) at the University of Hawai'i at Manoa teaches a natural science-based curriculum and is working to integrate social science components to produce holistically prepared graduates.
A significant decrement in rapid eye movement (REM) latency, REM duration, REM percentage of TST, nonrapid eye movement (NREM) stage 2, and slow wave sleep (SWS), in addition to a reduction in delta power, has been observed in most studies [2-4].
Baseline AHI decreased nearly 40% with both drugs, driven by improvement of the non-REM (NREM) AHI.