Definition
Slow-wave sleep (SWS)
Also called deep sleep. The stage where respiration slows and deepens, body movement drops, and the brain runs its heaviest maintenance. Associated with glymphatic clearance of metabolic waste including proteins implicated in Alzheimer's.
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