How Some People Can Sleep Through Anything

Описание: Do you know someone who can sleep through almost anything? Why don’t they wake up?

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Sleep Spindles: Where They Come From, What They Do
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23...
“Sleep spindles are extensively studied electroencephalographic rhythms that recur periodically during non-rapid eye movement sleep and that are associated with rhythmic discharges of neurons throughout the thalamocortical system.”

Reduced sleep spindle activity in schizophrenia patients
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17...
“Sleep spindles are generated by the thalamic reticular nucleus in conjunction with specific thalamic nuclei and are modulated by corticothalamic and thalamocortical connections.”

Busy Brains Make for Deeper Sleep
http://news.sciencemag.org/2010/08/bu...
“Sound sleepers share a surprising secret: a bustling brain. A new study reports that people who can sleep through anything show more frequent bursts of brain activity called sleep spindles than do their light-sleeping counterparts.”

Study: How Our Brains Make Us Light or Heavy Sleepers
http://content.time.com/time/health/a...
“How many times do you wake during the night? Do the slightest disturbances — the sound of a toilet flushing, say, or the TV in the next room — rouse you from sleep, while your partner slumbers soundly through a thunderstorm?”
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