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What is the study of sleep called?

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Polysomnography

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Name the three types of scans that are used in the study of sleep

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EEG, EOG, EMG

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Name the two types of brain activity waves during wakefulness, and name when they occur

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Beta, during brain activity, and alpha, when the person is resting

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What brain wave activity characterises stage 1 sleep?

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Theta waves

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What two features is stage 2 sleep characterised by?

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Sleep spindles (rapid but short bursts of activity) and k complexes (high amplitude but slow)

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Stage 3 sleep involves what brain waves?

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Delta

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What is another term for stage 3 sleep?

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Deep sleep/slow wave sleep

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What brain activity waves occur in REM sleep?

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Beta and theta

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How long does it take to cycle between all four stages and back?

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90 mins

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What was discovered by Dement and Kleitman in 1957?

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Dreams

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What % of dreams are 1. sad, angry or anxious, 2. happy, 3. of a sexual nature?

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  1. 64%
  2. 18%
  3. 1%
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What is Allan Hobsonsnactivation-synthesis hypothesis of dreaming?

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The brainstem is activated during REM sleep and sends a signal to the cortex which creates images with actions and emotions from memory
There is no logic in dreaming however, when awake, the person tries to organise the content into a logical story
There is no meaning of dreams, however they are based on the persons experience

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What is another name for Valli and Revonsuos coping hypothesis of dreaming?

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The clinico-anatomical hypothesis

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What does the clinico anatomical hypothesis/coping hypothesis of sleep suggest?

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We dream about things we find threatening in our lives and dreams are biologically adaptive, tending to lead to enhanced coping strategies

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What evidence supports the co-ping hypothesis of dreaming?

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Problem solving occurs during sleep

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What is the role of adenosine?

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Accumalates during the day and promotes sleep, signals that there is very little energy and that we have used a lot of our energy already

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Patients who had continuous sleep and would only wake up to eat and drink had damage to what brain area?

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The base of the brain

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Damage to what brain area is involved in insomnia patients?

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Ventro-lateral preoptic area

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What brain area is involved in wakefulness and who discovered the region?

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The brain stem and Moruzzi and Mogoun, 1949

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What is the name of the system operating during wakefulness?

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Reticular activating system

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What is the RAS

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Composed of several nuclei that project to the forebrain and promote arousal

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What are the different nuclei in the RAS

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  1. Locus coeruleus
  2. Raphe nucleus
  3. Tuberomammillary nucleus
    Nucleus basalis of Maynert
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What did Ciff Saper term the battle between sleep and arousal?

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The flip-flop switch

24
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What peptide helps to maintain wakefulness?

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Orexin/hypocretin

25
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Endogenous cycles are generated based on what?

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The earths rotation

26
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What did Aschoff 1965 discover?

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Humans placed in underground bunkers with no external cues showed daily sleep-activity rhythms, even though they drifted slightly above 24 hours

27
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What are external cues called?

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Zeitgebers

28
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When a zeitgeber sets an internal rhythm it is said to be what?

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Entrained

29
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Travelling west does what to our circadian rhythm?

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Phase-delays

30
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What is the variability in our circadian rhythms called

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Chronotypes

31
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Where is the primary biological clock located?

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SCN

32
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What was discovered about neuronal activity in the the SCN during the light period?

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More active

33
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What happens following SCN transplantation?

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The recipient follows the donors rhythm

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How does light reach the SCN?

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The retinohypothalamic tract

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What is the special population of ganglion cells called that respond to light in the RHT?

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Photo sensitive retinal ganglion cells

36
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What is the special pigment found in PRGCs?

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Melanopsin

37
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What initiates the transcription of the PER and TIM genes?

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The clock and the activators

38
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In drosophila, what two genes are activated that produce proteins? and what proteins do they produce?

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Per gene and tim gene, producing PER and TIM

39
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What does it mean to form dimers?

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The two proteins pair up

40
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What do the dimers do once they are paired?

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They translocate to the nucleus and inhibit the transcription of more of themselves

41
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In mammals what are the names of the genes and the proteins they create?

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CLOCK and BMAL1 gene, creating per 1,2,3 of cryptocome 1,2 which produced cry

42
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High amounts of inhibition = high amounts of proteins in the nucleus = what?

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Sleepiness

43
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What other glands does the SCN control during wake and sleep?

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The pituitary gland ~(light phase) and the pineal gland (dark phase)

44
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How does melatonin affect breeding?

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More melatonin produced in winter shrinks the gonads

45
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How does the circadian rhythm affect treatment of disease?

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  1. Drug toxicity varies from 20-80% depending on time of day
  2. Risk for illness also changes, with a higher likelihood of stroke and heart attacks in the morning due to a surge in cortisol
46
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Name the four reasons why we sleep?

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  1. Adaptive
  2. Restorative
  3. Promotes development
  4. Facilitates cognition
47
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What is removed from the body during sleep that promotes restoration?

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Free radicals and toxic waste

48
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When is growth hormone at its peak?

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During REM sleep

49
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LC = ?
RN = ?
TMN = ?
NBM = ?

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1.Norepinephrine/noradrenaline
2. 5-HT
3. Histamine
4. Acetylcholine

50
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What is secondary insomnia?

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Inability to sleep due to another mental or physical condition

51
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Give an example of a pharmacological hypnotic

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GABA-a agonists, BZDs and antihistamines

52
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Name three sleep disorders that is not insomnia

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  1. Narcolepsy
  2. Sleep apnea
  3. REM sleep disorder behaviour
53
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Name the three main symptoms of narcolepsy

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Sleep attacks, cataplexy, sleep paralysis

54
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What occurs in REM sleep disorder?

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The behaviour of people corresponds with the contents of their dreams

55
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What problems can low-wave sleep cause?

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Bed-wetting, sleepwalking and night terrors

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