References: Kalat, J.W (2013). Biological Psychology (11th ed.). Wakefulness and Sleep. Belmont, CA: Cengage Learning/Wadsworth…
Continuous positive airway pressure. CPAP involves using a machine that delivers a stream of compressed air through a nasal mask to the child's airway to keep it open during sleep.…
In rest phases, such as during sleep, information that was previously taken in is consolidated and passed on to other regions of the brain for final storage. This hippocampal function is linked to rhythms. The development of these rhythms depends on organized interaction between multitudes of nerve cells. Research in recent years demonstrated that suppression or intensification of brain oscillations can impair or improve learning (Nikolaus Maier).Physical activity has been known to improve cognitive function in humans and rodents. A study done by Griffin ÉW, Mullally S, Foley C, Warmington SA, O'Mara SM, and Kelly AM shows that Aerobic exercise does improve the function of the Hippocampus("Supplemental…
Sleep is a big part of one’s psychological health. Without sleep, many of our essential cognitive functions would begin to deteriorate. Factors like mood, comprehension, and many more are affected by the lack of sleep in an exceptionally large way. Due to the fact that in humans, we are exceptionally vulnerable mentally as we are physically. Many of us begin to put our well-being in harm’s way by receiving a reduced amount of sleep when compared to the average needed. As illustrated in, Sleep Thieves, Stanley Coren presents an experiment conducted in 1964 by a seventeen year old named Randy Gardner who became the world’s record holder for the longest amount of time spent awake without stimulants. The book, Sleep Thieves, begins to explain…
I investigate students attaining higher grades on exams when they receive proper sleep. I discuss 3 possible hypotheses for the reason of this occurrence: 1) more sleep contributes to greater capability in remembering, 2) rest is necessary for the brain to function at its prime, 3) staying awake and studying the night before leaves you with no energy during the actual exam. I will test hypothesis 2, which will include individuals to have 8 hours or more of sleep or less than 8 to no sleep at all and using EEG method to visualize the brains activity in relation to the amount of sleep and observing the scores received on exams. I would expect that students with at least 8 hours of sleep will receive better marks than those who get little to no sleep.…
As most of you may have already suspected, the results of several recent studies have indicated a relationship to sleep with cognitive functions in humans such as reported in this article in a recent issue of US News and World report: Poor Sleep May Age Your Brain. Furthermore, it appears that both too little sleep or too much sleep may be linked to CNS disease states.…
| I have a nerve issue in my neck right now that affects my whole right arm and hand, I wake in pain all night every night, and once to use the bathroom…
“The Sleep” by Caitlin Horrocks basically tell you about the people in the small town of Bounty. Protagonist Albert Rasmussen wife was killed by a drunk driver on an icy road. In this town the people looked up to Albert Rasmussen because he was smart and decided to stay in Bounty after graduation. Albert had gathered the whole town over in his family room to have a discussion. This discussion took place “…before the cameras, before the sleep, before the outsiders, and the plan sounded as strange to us as it would to anybody” (Horrocks 104). This literally means that they didn’t have anything much technology and before they actually decided to sleep. In this short story “The Sleep” sleep is a symbol to many things such as hibernation, separation, death.…
If you are a horror story fanatic, then you’ve most likely heard of The Russian Sleep Experiment. On August 10, 2010, this story appeared on a website called Creepypasta.com. The story was written about an event in the 1940’s where five men were held in a chamber with a special gas meant to keep them awake for 30 days straight. The event was said to take place in Russia during WWII. The author of this story never revealed their real name, or anything about themselves in the actual story, so no one really knows who the author is. Although, a woman named Holly Ice wrote a novella written from the point of view of the prisoners, based off of the original creepypasta story. A lot of people think this event really happened, but it never did. There…
Throughout this week I choose to track my sleep patterns I learned many things but also was left slightly puzzled. When it came to some of the results and varying energy levels. I started on Monday (02/20/2016) I ended up sleeping a total of 5 hours and 30 minutes which isn’t a lot of sleep. I woke up and felt groggy which isn’t uncommon for me. I’ve always had a hard time waking up in the mornings. Throughout the day I felt tired, I had a hard time focusing and just wanted to sit around. Now, the reason behind my 5 and a half hours of sleep is that I have a 1 month old daughter. She tends to wake up every 2 hours on the hour and has to be rocked back to sleep and fed. I refuse to sleep with her in…
Datta (2006): Activation of phasic pontine - wave generator, a mechanism for sleep - dependent memory processing. Sleep and Biological Rhythms, 4, 16–26…
Purpose: To inform the audience about what sleep is and how it helps the body.…
In the article, “Sleep Deprivation and False Memories”, at the Department of Psychology and Social Behavior at the University of California and Department of Psychology at Michigan State University, researchers Steven J. Frenda, Lawrence Patihis, Elizabeth F. Loftus, Holly C. Lewis, and Kimberly M. Fenn, studied and recorded the effects of sleep deprivation on memory. In the beginning of the article, the researchers discuss how false memories can be entirely made-up, or how people may take some true information, and pair it with “misleading information” forming a false memory.…
Recently, the National Sleep Foundation did a study that proved that the hours someone sleeps in a night can affect a person’s way to reason. The foundation found data that explained what happened…
In this article, the authors presented a study in which three experiments were used to determine the effect of sleep on declarative memory, and the researchers hypothesized that sleep does have an impact on declarative memory (Schönauer, Pawlizki, Köck, & Gais, 2014). The purpose of the experiment was to inform the readers about how sleep is crucial to memory in humans. Regarding the design of the experiment, it is set up as experimental, and the article states, “As intended in the experimental design, the amount of time spent in different sleep stages differed significantly between Experiments 1, 2, and 3” (Schönauer et al., 2014, para. 30). The independent variable was the amount of sleep, meditation, or lack of during the sleep conditioning,…