WHY WE SLEEP The Functions of Sleep in Humans and Other Mammals J.A. Horne Published by Oxford University Press 1988 Contents CHAPTER 1 Introduction 1.1 Early Sleep Theories 1.2 Daily Sleep and Wakefulness 1.3 Measuring Sleep References CHAPTER 2 Sleep Deprivation 2.1 Problems with Animal Experiments 2.2 Recent Animal Experiments 2.3 Some Problems with Human Experiments 2.4 1896 - The First Real Sleep Deprivation Experiment on Humans 2.5 The Longest Study - 264 hours
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Editors: Butkov‚ Nic; Lee-Chiong‚ Teofilo Title: Fundamentals of Sleep Technology‚ 1st Edition Copyright ©2007 Lippincott Williams & Wilkins > Front of Book > Editors Editors in Chief Nic Butkov RPSGT Teofilo Lee-Chiong MD Administrative Editors James Len Shigley RPSGT Mary Jones-Parker RPSGT Pediatric Section Editor Lee J. Brooks MD Editorial Board Debra A. Akers RRT‚ RPSGT Claude Albertario RPSGT Karen Allen PSGT Jon W. Atkinson BS‚ RPSGT Eric Bell PhD‚ DABSM‚ RPSGT Allen Boone RPSGT Thom
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Effects of Sleep Deprivation There are few things that mammals‚ birds‚ amphibians‚ reptiles and fish have in common; sleep is one of them. Sleep is when the body completely relaxes‚ sensory activities are suspended‚ and a lack of consciousness takes effect. Humans need to sleep on a daily basis in order for our bodies to function properly. The average adult needs seven to nine hours of sleep each day‚ and not getting adequate sleep can lead to sleep deprivation. Some symptoms of sleep deprivation
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Schizophrenia and Psychosis and Life Span Development Paper Shanda Walton University of Phoenix October 20‚ 2008 Schizophrenia translates as split mind and the psychological changes can be so profound that the affected individual is thrust into a world that bears little resemblance to everyday experience. The person with schizophrenia lives in an internal world marked by thought processes that have gone awry; delusions‚ hallucinations‚ and generally disordered thinking become the norm
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ARTICLE IN PRESS Sleep Medicine Reviews xxx (2009) 1–8 Contents lists available at ScienceDirect Sleep Medicine Reviews journal homepage: www.elsevier.com/locate/smrv CLINICAL REVIEW Parenting and infant sleep Avi Sadeh a‚ *‚ Liat Tikotzky b‚ Anat Scher c a The Adler Center for Research in Child Development and Psychopathology‚ Department of Psychology‚ Tel Aviv University‚ Ramat Aviv 69978‚ Israel Department of Psychology‚ Ben Gurion University of the Negev.‚ Beer Sheva‚ Israel
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this assignment will be referred to as Jack. Jack is a 70-year old gentleman. He has a diagnosis of paranoid schizophrenia and had lived with the disorder for three decades. When I engaged him in conversations he seemed intelligent and I found our conversations very educative as he gave different perspectives on varying topics‚ this aroused my interest to write about him. Paranoid schizophrenia
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How Sleep Deprivation Affects Psychological Variables Related to College Students Cognitive Performance Jenny R. Downs Fall07‚ PSY 1513 41 General Psychology (MSVCC) (2575) Sleep deprivation is very common for college students. A pattern is usually developed with sleep deprivation peaking during the week and even more during exam periods. Performance levels are significantly lower during these periods even though the students beleived that their performance was better. Many studies have
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Sleep When a person is sleep their nervous system is inactive‚ the muscles are relaxed‚ and consciousness is suspended. This is a condition of the body and the mind and usually takes place at night time for several hours. For the most part‚ the person is inactive. However‚ the functions of the brain and the body are more active during sleep than awake. The transition between being awake and going to sleep are in the hands of the brain. The brain also plays a key role in controlling the amount of
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In addition Paranoia schizophrenia presents changes of disorganized speech‚ catatonic or disorganized behaviors‚ and flat affect. Therefore it seems to affect the person cognition. People with gradually delusion or hallucinations normally have cases of persecutions or grandiose nature (First M.B.‚ Tasman‚ A.2006‚ p.246). Recalling one of the scenes where he meets William Parcher‚ a Defense agent that works for the government and who is the second imaginary character of John Nash‚ and portray by the
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Another physiological process that sleep deprivation can affect is the plasticity of the hippocampus. When applied in stressful environments‚ the amount of glucocorticoid production increases (McEwen‚ 1999). This increase in stress hormones correlates to the atrophy or the shrinkage of the hippocampal region. While this correlation is strongly related‚ other factors do in fact play a part in hippocampal atrophy. For example‚ the amount of dentate gyrus neurons in the brain could also have an effect
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