Sleep Regulation: Tips for Enhancing Sleep Quality and Quantity

Sleep regulation involves adopting healthy sleep habits and routines to ensure adequate and restful sleep for optimal physical and mental well-being.
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Prepared by Lee Cheng, reviewed by Jane Cox

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What is sleep regulation?

Features in this section explore the basics of sleep regulation: the structures of the brain that control wakefulness and sleep, the systems that interact to enable us to stay awake and asleep for many hours at a time, and the external factors that can influence both. This content was last reviewed on October 1, 2021.

How does the body regulate sleep?

The body regulates sleep with two key drivers: sleep-wake homeostasis and the circadian alerting system. Sleep-wake homeostasis. This technical term describes something most of us know implicitly from experience: the longer you’re awake, the more you feel a need to sleep. This is because of the homeostatic sleep drive

What are the three regulated aspects of sleep?

This article discussed three regulated aspects of sleep: circadian timing, slow-wave activity, and the NREM–REM sleep cycle. Circadian timing is the most understood. The function is to synchronize the daily sleep phase with the geophysical cycle, and the feedback is exposure to light.

Why is sleep regulation important in neurobiology?

The function or functions of sleep are one of the greatest unanswered questions in neurobiology, and even in all of biology, so it is very important to pursue understanding of sleep regulation as a path to discovering the function (s) of sleep.

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