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Went 11days (264 hours) w/o sleep.
* hallucinations
* speech & movement problems
* but the last night, beat researchers at arcade games |
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| List the Benefits of Sleep (4) |
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1. Restoration
2. Adaptation
3. Memory
4. Growth |
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Random Eye Movement
also includes muscle relaxation and dreams |
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| Describe the Stages of sleep (5) |
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1) small, irregular brainwaves (edge of consciousness
2) "sleep spindles" probably small noises won't wake you
3) emit Delta waves (slow, high peaks), muscles relaxed, hard to waken
4) Delta waves take over, deep sleep this is when sleep walking/talking happens
5)REM |
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| List the two types of Sleep apnea and how to treat it |
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Central: brain stops sending signals to diaphragm
Upper-airway: loss of muscle tone in throat, larynx, tongue
Treatment: CPAP, surgery to pull tongue away from throat |
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| Define Insomnia, list treatment |
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Chronic inability to fall or stay asleep at night
Treatment:narcotics, amphetamines, alcohol |
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| Define Narcolepsy, give some treatment |
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Definition
sleep disorder involving sudden and unpredictable daytime attacks of sleepiness or actual sleep
treatments: narcotics, alcohol |
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Definition
| sudden and transient episode of loss of muscle tone, often triggered by emotions. |
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| the dream's surface content (dream symbols that distort and disguise the dream's true meaning) |
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| The dream's hidden content (unconscious meaning |
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| the reason we dream: the unconscious attempt to fulfill needs we can't address when awake |
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| Sample symbols of manifest content (5) |
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1. alarm clock: neural stimulus effecting a dream
2. falling: giving in to sexual desire
3. flying: pleasant feeling
4. hats: genitalia
5. Structures: repressed sexual undertone |
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| Define action synthesis theory |
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| dreams are fabricated by cortex to translate signals from pons |
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| Define cognitive theory of dreaming |
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| dreams are similar to stuff we experience while awake |
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