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Increase of what produces Sleepiness?
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Melatonin
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Melatonin produces what?
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Sleepiness
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Where does Melatonin synthesize from? where does it come out of? Which part of the Brain?
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Pineal Gland
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We produce Beta Waves during REM sleep and when we are awake postural muscle paralysis occurs..
What is this? |
Paradoxical Sleep
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Duration of sleep cycle.. about __ minutes
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90
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Approximately how many cycles a night do you need?
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5
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The main function of sleep is to enable the body to repair itself after the exertions of the day..
Which Sleep Theory is this? |
Repair and Restoration Theory
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We evolved a need to sleep to force us to conserve energy when we would be relatively inefficient and to protect us from nocturnal predators..
Which Sleep Theory is this? |
Adaptive Theory
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Dreaming represents random and meaningless firing of neurons in the brain..
Which Dream Theory is this? |
Activation-Synthesis Theory
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The pons sends random nerve impulses to the cortex which attempts to make sense of them... THe meaning that is imposed on the random firing reflects our past and our perspective on the world...
Which Dream Theory is this? |
Activation-Synthesis Theory
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Dreams reflect unconscious desires, especially those involving sex and aggression. To protect us our mind transforms these desires into harmless symbols that appear in our dreams..
Which Dream Theory is this? |
Freud's Theory
Freudian Theory |
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Inability to breath while sleeping.
Causes: are obesity and brain mechanisms for respiration fail to work. Which type of sleep Abnormality is this? Hint: (GMA has it) |
Sleep Apnea
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Increases heart rate and constricts blood vessels in the brain decreasing blood supply.
Increases release of dopamine and ACT by interfering with the neurotransmitter adenosine which normally inhibits dopamine and ACT. NAME THIS DRUG... |
Caffeine
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Produces enhanced mood, alertness, increased activity, decreased appetite, & diminished fatigue.
High doses can produce anxiety, emotional instability, & suspiciousness blocks reuptake of dopamine. NAME THIS DRUG... |
Cocaine
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dermed
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A condition in which one's body needs the drug to function. When the drug is not available, the person develops withdrawal symptoms.
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Physical dependence
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A condition in which one needs a drug to function cognitively and emotionally.
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Psychological dependence
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What are the three types of Drug tolerance?
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Metabolic, cellular, and learned.
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Occurs when certain enzymes break down the drug; thus the drug is absorbed by the body much more quickly than when a person has not developed drug tolerance...
Which type of Drug tolerance is this? |
Metabolic tolerance
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Brain cells adjust to the effects of the drug so that the behavioral signs of intoxication are low or not visible, despite a high blood level of the drug. Which type of Drug tolerance is this?
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Cellular tolerance
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A person learns to cope with intoxication and no longer appears to be drunk. Which Drug tolerance is this?
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Learned tolerance
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blant
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wsrod,z
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Waves associated with all stages of sleep.
Stage 1.. what kind of waves? |
Theta waves
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Waves associated with all stages of sleep.
Stage 2 What kind of waves (2 of them). |
Sleep Spindles
K-complexes |
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Burst of waves lasting at least 1/2 second..
in stage 2 of sleeping.. which wave is this called? |
Sleep Spindles
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Sharp high-amplitude negative wave followed by a smaller, slower positive wave.. found in stage 2 of sleeping
Which wave is this called? |
K-complexes
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Waves associated with all stages of sleep...
DEEP SLEEP Stage 3,4 |
Delta waves
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Waves associated with all stages of sleep..
stage 5 REM. Dream sleep. Which wave is this? |
Mostly BETA waves
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