Sublime

In addition, there are several fantastic sleep books that I think everyone who sleeps (that’s you, right?) should own and read: • The Power of When, by Dr. Michael Breus • Change Your Schedule, Change Your Life, by Dr. Suhas Kshirsagar • Sleep: The Myth of 8 Hours, the Power of Naps, and the New Plan to Recharge Your Body and Mind, by Nick

“The brain only has limited energy at its disposal, and it appears that it must choose between two different functional states—awake and aware, or asleep and cleaning up. You can think of it as like having a house party. You can either entertain the guests or clean up the house, but you can’t really do both at the same time.”

quiénes son los cuatro personajes más importantes que aparecen en los procesos de atención? — Las ondas alfa del cerebro. — La corteza prefrontal. — La corteza cingulada anterior. — La dopamina.

Delta waves, the slowest frequencies (2–5 Hz) are seen most often during sleep. The brain is in an idling state, and the mind is turned inward. If people have too much slow-wave activity while they’re awake, their thinking is foggy and they exhibit poor judgment and poor impulse control.

the parts of our brain that ignite healthy deep sleep at night are the very same areas that degenerate, or atrophy, earliest and most severely as we age.

amygdala—a key hot spot for triggering strong emotions such as anger and rage, and linked to the fight-or-flight response—showed well over a 60 percent amplification in emotional reactivity in the participants who were sleep-deprived.

healthy serotonin expression: daily sunlight exposure.19

K. Anders Ericsson. He was a psychology professor at Florida State University and the author of an article titled “Exceptional Memorizers: Made, Not Born.”