When the body is allowed the recommended amount of sleep at night, it is able to carry out the various functions that are necessary in brain reorganization and repair, such as memory storage, structure reinforcement, and many others. The reason infants require much larger amounts of sleep is because brain plasticity is extremely active at that age, therefore their REM sleep takes far longer than their SWS, further supporting Oswald’s and Horne’s arguments on the roles REM sleep
When the body is allowed the recommended amount of sleep at night, it is able to carry out the various functions that are necessary in brain reorganization and repair, such as memory storage, structure reinforcement, and many others. The reason infants require much larger amounts of sleep is because brain plasticity is extremely active at that age, therefore their REM sleep takes far longer than their SWS, further supporting Oswald’s and Horne’s arguments on the roles REM sleep