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What are the three measurements of sleep?
Electro-encephalogram (head), Electro-oculogram (eye) and eectromyogram (neck)
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What are presleep alpha waves?
bursts of 8- to 12 Hz activity in low amplitude/high frequency waves
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How many stages of EEG are there?
four stages
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what is the recupuration theory of sleep?
Being awake disrupts homeostasis, sleep restores this
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What is the evolutionary theory of sleep?
Sleep is not a reaction to homeostatic disruption, sleep evolved to preent accidents and predation at night
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What is sleep like?
Sex, you dont need it to stay alive alive
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What do all mammals and birds do?
sleep
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What are large species differences?
not related to body size temperature
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What do sloths do?
20 hours of sleep a day
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What effect does exercise have on amount of sleep?
little or no effect
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What is this
Not consistent with recuperation theories of sleep
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What is the evolutionary theory?
Sleep related to how vulunerable you are asleep time spent eating/day
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What do recuperations theories predict?
Increases in physiological, behavioural disturbances and after sleep deprivation, missed sleep much be regained
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Which point is found not to be true
The second one
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What are deprivation influences?
Mood, physiological function and molecular function
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What are the effects on executive function?
Assimilating changing information, updating plans and reference memory
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Do poeple need to catch up after sleep deprivation?
No
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Why?
Randy gardner stayed up for 260 hours: only need 14 hours of sleep
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What did Vogel et al find?
preventing REM sleep acts as an antidepressant
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What did Scherschnit find?
examined side effects of 20 antidepressants, all decreased REm sleep, most increased slow wave sleep
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Is REm sleep hard to sustain?
YEs
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What happens when Rem is prevented?
the body wants it more
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What happens when REM sleep is deprived?
causes a transient rebound, no cog or emotions effect
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What happened to rats who were deprived from sleep?
They died
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What was found in the post mortem?
Rats had swollen glands and gastric ulcers, could be a consequence of sleep or stress
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What areas of the brain were involved?
The hypothalamus
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What was studied?
the brains of those who died from encephalitis lethargia, victimes who had difficulty sleeping:damage to anterior region, v
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What did the victim who had difficulty staying awake suffer from?
amage to prosterior region
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What did Bremer find?
Cervaeu Isole transection slow wave and encephalate isole transcription - normal sleep wake cycle
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What did Mouzzi and Morgan find?
timulation of reticular formation of sleeping cats wake them up
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What happened with narcolepsy?
Relatively breif period of sudden sleep
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What happened with REM sleep without core muscle atonia?
Sleep walking
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