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Sleep & Dreams Chp 2

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Hypnagogic Imagery / Hypnagogic Hallucionations
entails traditionally vague and disconnected images often experienced at the onset of sleep
Hypnapomic Imagery / Hypnapomic Hallucinations
hypnagogic images associated with ending sleep
Hypnic Myoclonias / Hypnic Jerks / Sleep Starts
generally occur as an individual is falling asleep and involved a muscle contraction that wakes them up
Cataplexy
Often found in Narcoleptics, Cataplexy manifests itself as a muscle weakness which may range from slackening of the facial muscles to total collapse
SOREMP (Sleep Onset REM Period)
Considered a confirmation of Narcolepsy, SOREMP is when an individual begins REM periods within 15 minutes of falling asleep
Reversibility
Defining characteristic of sleep, when a sleeper is in a deep sleep, one must elicit a louder response in order to awake the person
Perceptual Disengagement
A sleeping person has zero awareness of the physical world around us
Electroencephalography
Otherwise known as EGG, it is the ink-writing oscillograph which allows brain wave activity to be recorded on moving paper.
The brain is often more active during ____ sleep than during wakefulness.
REM
Human circadian rhythm is usually _______ than 24 hours.
slightly longer
Suprachiasmatic Nuclei
Two small bilateral clusters of neurons near the midline at the base of the brain, houses the brain mechanism known as the biological clock.
Major role of the biological clock is to amplify and reinforce sleep and wakefulness as _____ in the daily 24 hour cycle.
alternating phases
Dream recall is more likely to occur during an awakening from ____ sleep periods.
REM
Electro-oculogram (EOG)
Measures the movement of the eyeball during sleep.  Records various different voltage amounts across the eyeball.
REM sleep
is highly active brain in a paralyzed body.  Not all muscles are paralyzed, for example, muscles required to breathe stay functional.  Lasts about 90 minutes.
Non-REM sleep
The states of sleep that aren't REM based, 4 different stages.

Stage 1 NREM

1.  Stage 1

2.  Stage 2

3.  Stage 3

4.  Stage 4 

1.  low voltage, transition from wakefulness to other sleep stages lasts 1-7 minutes. 

2. 45% of full nights sleep, characterized by sleep spindles and/or k-complexes in the EEG

3.  High amplitude recording in EEG

4. &n

Sleep Onset
the moment enhanced Alpha rhythms present in wakefulness disappear to indicate the change from wakefulness to sleep
Retrograde Amnesia
The forgetting of events that have occurred just before falling asleep.

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