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| Best Description of sleep as we get older |
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| reduced quality, more fragmentation |
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| How much sleep does your average 75 year old require? |
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| Do male or females suffer more insomnia in the later years? |
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| As a general category, what is the biggest source of sleep fragmentation in older patients? |
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| general effect of alcohol on sleep onset |
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| falling asleep quickly is an effect of what? |
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| general effect of alcohol on sleep maintenance |
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| second half of sleep being fragmented can be a result of what? |
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| one specific sleep disorder that becomes more common during pregnancy |
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| sleep is intimately connected with what other biological function, and best explains the difficulties that women have with insomnia during menopause |
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| sleep tends to become problematic during menopause due to an decrease in what? |
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| what is the most common sleep disorder experienced by females? |
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| newborn infants tend to sleep how much of the 24 hour day? |
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| at about what age does daytime napping generally disappear in small children? |
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| excluding childhood, what age group tends to experience the most frequent daytime napping? |
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| elementary students should obtain how many hours of sleep a night? |
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| high school students should obtain approximately how many hours of sleep a night? |
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| as people get older, what tends to happen to WASO |
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| the sleep in infants can only be broken down into what 2 main types of sleep? |
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| "active sleep" is most like what stage of adult sleep? |
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| what stage of sleep is most important to the development of the CNS and the brain in young children? |
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| NREM sleep can be differentiated into its main three categories after a child is approximately how old? |
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| what stage of sleep drops significantly once a person proceeds through puberty? |
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| what stage of sleep stays fairly constant from childhood through adulthood? |
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| What happens to the SWS as we get older? |
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| REM sleep stabilizes to about what percent of total sleep time during most of adolescence and through adulthood? |
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| REM latency is approximately 90 in a normal adult, but is about how long in young children? why? |
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| 100-120 because they have so much N3 sleep |
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| REM Latency is about 60-70 in older adults due to what change in sleep architecture? |
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| older adults dont have as much N3 sleep, so they get to REM quicker. |
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