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Sleep mechanisms and behaviours

This class was created by Brainscape user Noémie Setlakwe. Visit their profile to learn more about the creator.

By: Noémie Setlakwe
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Decks in this class (12)

1. Introduction
2 umbrella theories of why we sleep,
Hemeostasis theory,
Cognitive theory of why we sleep
12  cards
2. Introduction; methods in sleep research, sleep architecture
Retrospective vs prospective meth...,
Behavioural measure of sleep,
Polysomnography
19  cards
3-4. Sleep architecture and neuro
Potential functions of sleep spin...,
What is k complex doing,
What are the potential functions ...
11  cards
5. Neurobiology of sleep
What s the most important inhibit...,
What happens in the sleep promoti...,
What happens in the vlpo
11  cards
6. circadian rhythms
What tells the rest of your body ...,
How do we call the external thing...,
What happens if the scn is lesioned
12  cards
7. Circadian rhythms 2
Polyphasic sleep,
Extreme phase delay,
What do circadian disorders mean
12  cards
8. functions of sleep 1
Do plants sleep,
Sleep as we define it does seem t...,
What is unihemispheric sleep
11  cards
9-10. functions of sleep
What is the role of the hippocamp...,
Study where participants slept af...,
Study where they had group 1 that...
16  cards
11. Insomnia
Which gender is more often affect...,
Three categories of insomnia,
What are the factors that need to...
13  cards
12. dreams: introduction
Sleep mentation vs the classic dream,
Asclepios god of medecine way to ...,
Tibetan dream yogas
10  cards
13. neural correlates of dreams
What was the study on the neural ...,
What is the problem with the stud...,
So do we have the neural correlat...
14  cards
14-15. Functions of dreams
Explain recency effect of dream r...,
If you don t sleep so great are y...,
Do dreams lead to memory consolid...
4  cards

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