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REM sleep

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REM sleep [′rem ‚slēp]


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REM Sleep Deprivation and Decrease of Nocturnal Penile Tumescence (NPT) in Young Healthy Males: The Significance of NPT Measurements, Stefan Kamp, Richard Ott, Thomas Knoll, Klaus-Peter Juenemann, Maurice-Stephan Michel, Peter Aiken, and Stephan Bross, Mannheim University Hospital, Germany
We were surprised to see that breathing completely stopped when the rats entered REM sleep [the deepest sleep phase], forcing the rats to wake up in order to start breathing again," says study coauthor Leanne McKay, also of the University of California, Los Angeles.
The poster explains REM sleep and the meaning of several common dreams and encourages kids to write about their own sleep adventures.
 
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