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Scientists find that small regions of the brain can take micro-naps while the rest of the brain is awake and vice versa - EurekAlert


For the first time, scientists have found that sleep can be detected by patterns of neuronal activity just milliseconds long, 1000 times shorter than a second, revealing a new way to study and understand the basic brain wave patterns that govern consciousness.

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