Characteristics of Slow Wave Sleep are
(C) Heart rate and respiratory rate become irregular > Slow waves in the EEG and their behavioral correlate, slow-wave sleep, can be produced by stimulation of at least three subcortical regions.> The diencephalic sleep zone is in the posterior hypothalamus and the nearby intralaminar and anterior thalamic nuclei.> The stimulus frequency must be about 8 Hz; faster stimuli produce arousal.
Also called paradoxical slee
Dreams occur but not consolidated into memory
Heart rate & respiratory rate become irregular
EEG shows desynchronized pattern of b waves
Nervous System