23 healthy adults ... who were able to fall asleep inside an MRI with EEG leads stuck to their heads. That's not an easy feat!
TBH the inside of an MRI is one of the most boring places in the world.
How the brain's activity, energy use and blood flow change as people fall asleep
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Re: How the brain's activity, energy use and blood flow change as people fall asleep
#92I wonder how much of sleep research is affected by the difference in sleep quality between your own bed and a lab. Even if you're on vacation and the hotel bed is of exceptional quality, your brain knows that it's in a different environment and would naturally be on partial alert, at least for the first couple of nights. Now imagine sleeping in a lab setting, knowing that your sleep data is being measured. Intellectu…
I have been thinking about this too, not just for the bed but also measuring equipment like pulse-oxymeters you would wear during a study.
Re: How the brain's activity, energy use and blood flow change as people fall asleep
#93During my 20s I developed a severe insomnia, probably due to not knowing how to handle stress. It was so bad that I had to go to the ER because I haven't had any sleep in days and didn't know what else to do. They gave me ambien and it helped at the time, but I knew that it was not something to take long term. I then started to experiment with various methods to help me fall asleep and sleep hygene such as hot/cold s…
Would be interesting to know why yawning induces sleep at all.
I do this as well. It is probably both a symptom and an initiator of certain sleep-associated changes in the body.