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Summary Of: Slow-wave sleep
The major factor determining how much slow-wave sleep is observed in a given sleep period is the duration of preceding wakefulness... Some of the few factors known to increase slow-wave sleep in the sleep period that follows them include body heating... Longer periods of slow-wave sleep occur in the first part of the night... Children and young adults will have more total slow-wave sleep in a night than older adults... The elderly may not go into slow-wave sleep at all during many nights of sleep... Encyclodia Page On: Slow-wave sleep
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