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Sleep and brain experts respond to new findings on the association between REM sleep and Alzheimer's disease, recommending ...

A new study has explored a potential link between a particular sleep pattern and the risk of Alzheimer’s disease ...

A new study suggested that not getting enough REM sleep can be an early warning sign of Alzheimer's disease. Here's what a ...

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“In Apple Watch’s sleep tracking, the term ‘core sleep’ refers to the combination of sleep stages N1 and N2, often referred ...

Rapid eye movement sleep is important as it stimulates an area of your brain known as the amygdala. It’s associated with learning, emotional processing, dream content and memory consolidation.

Any sleep tracker will show you that slumber is far from a passive affair. And no stage of sleep demonstrates that better than rapid eye movement, or REM, commonly called dream sleep.

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These stages are awake, non-REM sleep (NRM) 1, NRM 2, NRM 3 (or deep sleep), and REM (or rapid eye movement sleep). As for how much time we need to be in each type?