{"id":213051,"date":"2025-05-02T03:04:43","date_gmt":"2025-05-02T08:04:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/05\/caffeine-increases-brain-complexity-during-sleep-and-shifts-it-toward-a-critical-state"},"modified":"2025-05-02T03:04:43","modified_gmt":"2025-05-02T08:04:43","slug":"caffeine-increases-brain-complexity-during-sleep-and-shifts-it-toward-a-critical-state","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/05\/caffeine-increases-brain-complexity-during-sleep-and-shifts-it-toward-a-critical-state","title":{"rendered":"Caffeine increases brain complexity during sleep and shifts it toward a critical state"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/caffeine-increases-brain-complexity-during-sleep-and-shifts-it-toward-a-critical-state.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Caffeine shifts brain activity during sleep by increasing EEG complexity and reducing long-range temporal correlations, particularly in non-REM (NREM) sleep. These changes reflect a movement toward a \u201ccritical regime\u201d of neural processing, more pronounced in younger adults.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Caffeine shifts brain activity during sleep by increasing EEG complexity and reducing long-range temporal correlations, particularly in non-REM (NREM) sleep. These changes reflect a movement toward a \u201ccritical regime\u201d of neural processing, more pronounced in younger adults.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-213051","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213051","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=213051"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213051\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=213051"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=213051"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=213051"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}