The Effects of Sleep Spindles on Memory Consolidation

After stage two sleep for a bit of time, you transition into what we call slow wave sleep or stage three sleep. And that is when your brain really starts to slow all the way down. The neuronal firing in your brain starts to slow down. And it begins to synchronize so that the neurons across your brain fire at the same time. Those large amplitude slow waves are associated with a ton of really important health benefits. It's no longer this idea that like you have some neurons in the front of your brainfiring and some neurons on the right toyour brainfiring. It's that all of the neurons across the cortex are really starting to fire at the Same Time.