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Is anyone there - the science of consciousness (UNSW - The University of New South Wales)

Edit Public Technologies 31 Mar 2016
Like waves, brain activity oscillates ... 12 Hz) in comparison to the big, slow delta oscillations (between 0.25 and 4 Hz) in deep sleep, when subjects lose consciousness. But the change of these oscillations (from fast alpha to slow delta waves) may not reflect the whole picture of what is happening in your brain when you lose or regain consciousness....

Australian Silicon Valley entrepreneur Tan Le's brainwave creates the Insight headset that promises to read your mind

Edit Sydney Morning Herald 19 Mar 2016
The Insight promises to read your mind ... From her base in San Francisco, she travels the world, educating people about the benefits of technologically-assisted mindfulness ... Advertisement ... The device comes bundled with software that purports to measure your energy, interest, excitement and relaxation, and a Brain Visualiser that claims to show theta, alpha, beta and delta waves firing in your parietal cortex ... He was not alone ... ....

Brain Mapping Expert Tells Wall-Street.com It's Time Voters Know What's Really Inside The 'Make America Great Again' Cap Trump Wears

Edit PR Newswire 09 Mar 2016
MIAMI, March 9, 2016 /PRNewswire/ -- In today's financial website Wall-Street.com (www.wall-street.com), a leading expert on brain mapping suggests no voter can really know Donald Trump or any of the other presidential candidates for that matter, without knowing their "brain maps." ... His entire brain would be right side dominant Beta (and probably Gamma) Waves with left side dominant imbalanced left side Delta and Low Delta Waves ... ....

Characterizing Sleep

Edit The Scientist 01 Mar 2016
High-amplitude delta waves (0.5–4 Hz) occur at the deepest stage of non-REM, or slow-wave, sleep. Both the presence and amplitude of these delta waves are used to characterize sleep in whole animals. When treated with the somnogen tumor necrosis factor α (TNF-α), the brain produces higher-amplitude delta waves, indicating a deeper stage of sleep ... amplitudes of delta waves....

Sleep's Kernel

Edit The Scientist 01 Mar 2016
High-amplitude delta waves (0.5–4 Hz) are a defining characteristic of the deepest stage of non–rapid eye movement (non-REM) sleep ... Other measures used to characterize sleep include synchronization of electrical activity between EEG electrodes and the quantification of EEG delta wave amplitudes....

The mind's biology: Doctors are reaching past the symptoms of mental illness to fix the circuits that breed them

Edit Sydney Morning Herald 23 Feb 2016
Which means that in one 50-minute session, Raymond's brain experienced 6000 chances to be "rewarded" for learning how to reduce the delta-wave activity in the right hemisphere and re-establish its normal firing pattern ... Those overactive delta waves nearly disappeared, and her improving mood matched her brain map, evident by the diagnostic form she filled in before each session....

Meditate your way to a healthy life

Edit Deccan Herald 17 Feb 2016
In the last two decades, especially with the advent of hi-tech and modern technology, India has witnessed many revolutionary changes and developments in concepts, approach and methodology of health science ... One gives out alpha and delta waves from this sub-cortical region when he/she engages their mind in a special form of positive thinking called meditation ... ....

Is Your Teen Sleeping Enough?

Edit Yahoo Daily News 02 Feb 2016
View photo. Sleep is a necessity and for the body and mind to function optimally, a minimum number of hours is required every night. At different times of our lives, the need changes ... During the second stage, our eye movements stop and the brain waves slow down. In stage 3, brain waves become extremely slow but are interspersed with smaller but faster waves. The stage four sleep is almost dominated by Delta waves or slow waves sleep....

Black Friday to Cyber Monday: Sears Canada Has Canadians Covered for All Their Holiday Shopping ...

Edit Public Technologies 18 Dec 2015
(Source. Sears Canada Inc). Shop in-store and online from November 26 to 30. TORONTO, Nov. 25, 2015/CNW/ - If Canadians haven't already got the Holiday shopping fever then the Black Friday deals at Sears Canada Inc. (TSX. SCC; NASDAQ. SRSC) will be sure to help them feel the spirit ... Our five-day Black Friday event culminates on November 30with a huge Cyber-Monday promotion ... View News Release Full Screen. One Day Deals ... Save 35% Delta Wave crib....

Better sleep improves brain function

Edit The Examiner 24 Nov 2015
The brain uses a lot of energy in the "resting" state ... Sinai Hospital in Miami Beach, Florida, and Florida State University in Tallahassee, Florida, in 2015 determined the five sleep stages and their relative importance using brain wave analysis ... The third and fourth are vital for recharging the immune system through deeper delta waves as in unconsciousness ... A sleep mask can help but even minimal light waves can be absorbed by skin ... ....

What happens to your body when you sleep?

Edit The Independent 01 Oct 2015
The urge to sleep is all-consuming, and if we are deprived of it, we will eventually slip into slumber even if the situation is life threatening ... The vast majority of our sleep (around 75 to 80 per cent) is NREM, characterised by electrical patterns in the brain known as ‘sleep spindles’ and high, slow delta waves....

What Are Delta Waves?

Edit About.com 30 Sep 2015
During stage 3, less than half of brain waves consist of delta waves, while more than half of brain activity consists of delta waves during the fourth stage ... Parkinson's disease, schizophrenia, and narcolepsy are all characterized by changes in delta wave activity.Some drugs and chemicals have been shown to impact the brain's delta waves....

Music to give you nightmares – 10 of the best

Edit The Guardian 24 Sep 2015
Radio 3 are broadcasting Max Richter’s eight-hour lullaby Sleep on Saturday night, live from the Wellcome Collection. Here, by contrast, are 10 works that certainly won’t give you sweet dreams ... There are plenty of eight- or 10-hour concoctions of delta-wave enhancing and theta-wave inducing meditative musical medleys out there on YouTube, tapping into an apparently insatiable demand for somnolent soundscapes ... 1. Wagner. Die Walküre ... ....
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