Sleep paralysis is a common condition characterized by transient partial or total paralysis of skeletal muscles and areflexia that occurs upon awakening from sleep or less often while falling asleep. Stimuli such as touch or sound may terminate the episode‚ which usually has a duration of seconds to minutes. This condition may occur in normal subjects or be associated with narcolepsy‚ cataplexy‚ and hypnagogic hallucinations. The pathophysiology of this condition is closely related to the normal
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Covarrubias Writing 111 October 11‚ 2011 “Sleep Deprived Teens” The National Sleep Foundation (NSF) issued a news release titled “America’s Sleep-Deprived Teens Nodding Off at School‚ Behind the Wheel”. This release was to report their findings in their 2006 Sleep in America poll‚ a national survey on the sleep patterns of adolescents ages 11-17 in the United States. According to the NSF’s survey‚ not only do the majority of adolescents not get enough sleep‚ but also their parents are also mostly
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How Much Sleep Do You Need? Sleep Cycles & Stages‚ Lack of Sleep‚ and How to Get the Hours You Need When you’re scrambling to meet the countless demands of your day‚ cutting back on sleep might seem like the only answer. Who can afford to spend so much time sleeping‚ anyway? The truth is you can’t afford not to. Even minimal sleep loss takes a toll on your mood‚ energy‚ and ability to handle stress. Learn how to determine your nightly sleep needs and what you can do to bounce back from chronic
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Running head: Sleep Deprivation‚ Disorders and Drugs Sleep Deprivation‚ Disorders and Drugs Axia College of University of Phoenix There was a time when I was not getting sleep; it affected almost every aspect of my being and definitely my personality. Reading the text written by Pinel‚ I realize many of the descriptions of sleeplessness fit those very memorable‚ yet miserable days. My opinion on my reaction to sleeplessness concurred fairly well with the text‚ though I did not consider myself
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something holding you down and you’re having an encounter with a menacing presence. You might be having sleep paralysis. About half of the population has experienced this strange phenomenon at least once in their life This episode can last anywhere from seconds to minutes‚ and may involve visual or auditory hallucinations. In 1867‚ Dr Silas Weir Mitchell was the first medical professional to study sleep paralysis. He captured the condition with the following description: “The subject awakes to consciousness
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Causes Of Sleep Deprivation Sleep is very important in our daily lives and we need about eight hours of sleep every night. Sleep helps the brain commit new information. When you have lack of sleep it is difficult to get up in the mornings‚ you feel sleepy throughout the day‚ and you’re just not feeling your best. Lifestyle is the biggest and most common cause of sleep deprivation. It affects the ability to sleep well in an individual’s life. Some people do not realize how their sleeping conditions
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Speech Topic: The Importance of Sleep Rhetorical Purpose: To inform my audience about how a bad sleep can influence our body physically and mentally‚ and steps to improve the quality of sleep. Audience Analysis: (Refer to chapter on Audience Analysis)(RU Core Goal: a) Summarize Audience demographics‚ prior exposure/knowledge‚ common ground/interest‚ disposition/attitude‚ and situational characteristics. Recognizing that most of my audiences are busy with study and after-class activities‚
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period of sleep is needed. So if the quality of sleep declines‚ the dream recall frequency will decline as well. As experiments shown us‚ people of mood disorder and depression have a reduced dream recall frequency. Also people having Apnea and increased daytime sleepiness‚ CNS and PLM will have the same results which are a decline of sleep quality and a reduced dream recall frequency. Insomnia is the most frequent‚ it is considered as a symptom and it is a subjective dissatisfaction with sleep‚ also
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Obstructive sleep apnea is a sleep disorder that is defined by the absence of breathing for at least ten seconds due to obstruction of the airway. This obstruction can be caused by the tongue‚ soft palate or uvula relaxing and blocking the airway. A person with OSA will have noticeable breathing efforts‚ such as chest rise‚ but will not be able to take are into the lungs. This causes the person to startle awake. Often times the person with the sleep disorder is not even aware that they have a problem
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