Participants transitioned faster into deep sleep under the influence of medium intensity rocking
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    Every new parent knows that rocking can calm that uneasy baby when it's time to take a nap. But the benefits of gentle movement may go beyond the baby stage. Because two new studies show that rocking also helps
grown-ups, both human and mouse, get a good night's
sleep.

    What should be no surprise is that movement can calm someone.
Think of how many times you've fallen
asleep on a train.
But can motion really cause a nap,
and
make for a deeper sleep?

    To find out, researchers invited 18 healthy volunteers for a sleepover.
"So they came to the lab and slept one time on the motionless, normal bed. And one night where they got rocked." said Aurore Perrault, a sleep researcher at the University of Geneva
in Switzerland." And what we find is that when compared to a motionless
night, a whole night of rocking sleep has a beneficial effect not only on sleep beginning
but also on sleep continuity."
Subjects who were rocked also did better on a memory test the next morning than the stiller sleepers. In the second study, Kompotis, a student
at the University of Lausanne, rocked a group of mice."
Whether rocking
affects sleep in other species was never before discussed. So the main questions
for our study were whether
rocking affects sleep
in mice
and what is the possible system?"

    Kompotis placed the mouse cages on a platform that moved from side to side. Though mice were rocked four times faster than their human counterparts—a frequency of one back-and-forth per second,
or 1 Hertz, worked best—the results were strikingly similar." During rocking at 1 Hertz, time spent asleep increased, and mice fell asleep twice as fast as at still condition." However, additional studies could allow the researchers to identify a new aim for treating sleep disorders, including insomnia(失眠).

    If you want a good night's sleep, you
might think about adding a little swing to your
night-time routine.
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Slowly Rocking Bed

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