NIH R01 · 2024
PROJECT SUMMARY Sleep permeates our early existence: A typical human newborn sleeps 16 hours each day, evenly divided between active (REM) sleep and quiet sleep. The relatively high proportion of active sleep in newborns is the foundation for the decades-old hypothesis that active sleep is important for infant brain development. In considering this hypothesis, it is important to remember that active sleep is a complex state composed of a variety of behavioral and physiological components that emerge and coalesce over development. Thus, it may be that one or more of these components play outsized roles in promoting brain development. One such candidate component is the phasic activity that…
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