SLEEP STAGES Name: Charles Stevens Date: 02/23/2013 This week ’s individual work explores dreams‚ and the stages and disorders associated with sleep. You are to describe in detail each sleep stage‚ three sleep disorders‚ and why sleep is necessary. This lesson provides an explanation of the measurement of brain activity‚ as well as the presence of different sleep patterns and their respective functions. Stages of Sleep • Fill in the blanks: Write a brief description of the
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well known to be mostly abused usually through ingestion‚ snorting‚ injection‚ or smoking - due to the fairly easy nature of producing it (METHAMPHETAMINE). However‚ it does have some minor useful medical uses such as in therapeutic “treatment of narcolepsy and attention deficit hyperactive disorder (ADHD)” (Methamphetamine drug profile). Methamphetamine is a polar molecular solid that is held together by intermolecular forces like London dispersion‚ dipole-dipole‚ and slightly stronger hydrogen bonds
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Artvigil is a prescription medication proven to induce wakefulness in patients with sleep disorders and extreme activeness to normal patients. Contrary to its prior purpose which is to treat neurological disorders‚ the drug has been recently used to boost brain activity and do away with sleep. Unlike coffee and tea‚ artvigil is not a stimulant it contains a substance known as armodafinil which is a very strong nootropic supplement. Nootropic substances are drugs that improve one or moreaspects of
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“Sleeping Late At Night As Factor Affecting The Academic Performance Of High School Students” Joaquin Carl F. Loyola IV-Integrity CHAPTER I The Problem And it’s Settings INTRODUCTION Sleeping problems are almost always involved in mental disorders‚ including depression‚ alzheimer’s disease‚ stroke as well as head injury. And symptoms are strongly influenced by the amount of sleep a person gets. Difficulties may arise
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PSYCHOLOGY: UNIT 3 Biorhythms and Aggression By Catherine Walker Topic I: Bio-rhythms (separated into six essay topics) Biological rhythms: There are three types of biological rhythm; circadian‚ ultradian and infradian. Circadian rhythms are those which complete a cycle in a 24 hour period such as the sleep-wake cycle‚ heart rate or metabolism. People have variations within the circadian rhythms‚ notably the owl/lark division describing people who have biological
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Vicodin‚ Hydrocodone‚ Percocet‚ and OxyContin. Many of these drugs are sold‚ illegally‚ on the streets. This only allows more people to feed the addiction that can result from the over-use of these type of drugs. Adderall is prescribed to treat narcolepsy and attention deficit hyperactive disorder (ADHD). It is composed of amphetamine and dextroamphetamine‚ and is used to control the nerves that cause hyperactivity and involuntary impulses. People
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Chapter 8- Psychological Disorders Neurosis: term used to describe disorders causing personal distress and impairment in functioning‚ but did not cause a person to lose contact with reality Psychosis: a serious disturbance that can cause people to lose touch with reality and to suffer from delusions and hallucinations 5 Perspectives on Psychological Disorders 1. Biological Causes: a PD is a symptom of an underlying physical disorder cause by abnormalities in the brain by genetics‚ heredity
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healthy individuals should or should not use medication or drugs to improve cognitive abilities such as working memory or attention. At their genesis‚ cognitive-enhancing drugs such as Provigil or Ritalin were developed to aid patients suffering from narcolepsy‚ Alzheimer’s disease or ADHD with their cognitive difficulties. So why would it be wrong to let healthy individuals use the drug to increase their cognitive abilities even further? Experts claimed that the public’s judgement of healthy individuals
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Stage 1 Sleep NREM stage 1 sleep serves a transitional role in sleep-stage cycling. Aside from newborns and those with narcolepsy and other specific neurological disorders‚ the average individual’s sleep episode begins in NREM stage 1.Stage 2 sleep lasts approximately 10 to 25 minutes in the initial cycle and lengthens with each successive cycle‚ eventually constituting between 45 to 55 percent of the total sleep episode. An individual in stage 2 sleep requires more intense stimuli than in stage
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Name: Date: 1. Consciousness A) is a relatively simple phenomenon B) exists on a continuum C) is an all-or-nothing phenomenon D) includes only those states in which someone is fully alert 2. Armand is daydreaming‚ Adele is dreaming while asleep. Which statement is TRUE? A) Armand is semi-conscious‚ Adele is unconscious. B) Armand is semi-conscious‚ Adele is in an altered state of consciousness. C) Both Armand and Adele are in altered states of consciousness. D) Armand is in an altered state
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