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Circadian Rhythm & Sleep Flashcards

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Melatonin

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Hormone manufactured by pineal gland that produces sleepiness.

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Electroencephalogram or EEG

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Graphic rep of brain activity

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REM sleep

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Rapid eye movement

Dreaming and voluntary muscle activity is suppressed

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Beta brain waves

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Waves produced during alert wakefulness

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Alpha brain waves

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Relaxed wakefulness and drowsiness

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Hypnagogic hallucinations

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Vivid sensory phenomena during onset of sleep

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Sleep paralysis

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Temporary condition where one cannot move in the morning or during night

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Sleep spindles

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Bursts of brain activity in stage 2 sleep

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K complex

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Single but high voltage spike of brain activity that characterizes stage 2 sleep

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Sleep thinking

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Vague, bland, thought like rumination a about real life events typically occur during NREN sleep.

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Dream or nightmares

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Occur in REM sleep

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Manifest content

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Freud:

Elements of dream consciously remembered and experienced

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Latent content

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Freud:

Unconscious wishes/thoughts/urges that are concealed in manifest content of dreams

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Activation-synthesis model of dreaming

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Theory that brain activity during sleep produces dream images which are combined by the brain into a dream story

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Neurocognative model of dreaming

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Emphasized continuity of waking and framing cognition and states that framing is like thinking under conditions of reduced sensory input and absence of control

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Dyssomnias

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Disruptions in quality, amount, or timing of sleep

Insomnia, sleep apnea, narcolepsy

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Parasomnias

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Sleep disorders
Arousal or activation during sleep or sleep transactions

Sleepwalking, sleep terrors, sleep-related eating disorder, REM sleep behavior disorder

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Cataplexy

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Sudden loss of voluntary muscle strength and control that is usually triggered by intense emotion

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Suprachiasmatic nucleus

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Cluster of neurons in hypothalamus in brain that governs the timing of circadian rhythms

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