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Irregular sleep-wake syndrome Irregular sleep-wake syndrome is sleeping without any real schedule. This disorder is very rare. It usually occurs in a person who has a problem with brain function and who does not have a regular routine during the day. The amount of total sleep time is normal, but the body clock loses its normal circadian cycle.
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REM, Dreams, And Brain Waves Explained: What Happens In The Brain When We Sleep? A sleep cycle consists of five steps, which are in turn divided into two categories: REM sleep and non-REM sleep. REM sleep, or rapid eye movement sleep, occurs toward the end of each cycle and is typically the stage for our most lucid dreams.
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Definitions &Translations sleep paralysis(Noun) The normal paralysis of the body that occurs during REM sleep. sleep paralysis(Noun) A situation where a person is not fully awake, and although conscious of their surroundings, unable to move or speak, often accompanied by feelings of terror.
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Nap A nap is a short period of sleep, typically taken between the hours of 9am and 9pm as an adjunct to the usual nocturnal sleep period. Naps are most often taken as a response to drowsiness during waking hours. A nap is a form of biphasic or polyphasic sleep, where the latter terms also include longer periods of sleep in addition to one single period. Cultural attitudes toward napping during the work day vary.
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Sleep Sleep is a naturally recurring state of mind characterized by altered consciousness, relatively inhibited sensory activity, inhibition of nearly all voluntary muscles, and reduced interactions with surroundings.umans may suffer from a number of sleep disorders. These include dyssomnias (such as insomnia, hypersomnia, and sleep apnea), parasomnias (such as sleepwalking and REM behavior disorder), bruxism, and the circadian rhythm sleep disorders.
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wake 1 wake definition A funeral celebration, common in Ireland, at which the participants stay awake all night keeping watch over the body of the dead person before burial. A wake traditionally involves a good deal of feasting and drinking.
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- the brain structures that wake you up and put you to sleep The regulation of wakefulness is essential for survival and involves several different redundant structures in the brain. None of these structures, taken in isolation, is indispensable for activation of the cortex.
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Sleep mode Sleep mode is a low power mode for electronic devices such as computers, televisions, and remote controlled devices.
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SLEEP-WAKE CYCLES AND SHIFT WORK Sleep-Wake Cycles and Shift Work. Sleep-wake cycle refers to our 24 hour daily sleep pattern which consists of approximately 16 hours of daytime wakefulness and 8 hours of night-time sleep.
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6 Bizarre Sleep Disorders: Revealing What You Do In Your Sleep The Cycle Your Mind Makes in Sleep. A sleep cycle involves transitions between three different mental states: wakefulness, rapid eye movement (REM) sleep, and nonrapid eye movement sleep. REM is typically associated with dreams, whereas non-REM is considered the “deep sleep”.
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Sleep and Dreaming A sleep spindle is a burst of oscillatory brain activity visible on an EEG that occurs during stage 2 sleep. It consists of 12–14 Hz waves that occur for at least 0.5 seconds. Sleep spindles are generated in the reticular nucleus of the thalamus.
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Sleep Patterns Case Study A) Sleep is an unconscious state in which an individual's reaction to environmental stimuli is decreased. B) Most of the sleep cycle is made up of rapid eye movement (REM) sleep. C) An adult has four to six sleep cycles, each with NREM sleep and REM sleep during a normal night's sleep. About every 90 minutes, REM sleep recurs. A) Sleep is an unconscious state in which an individual's reaction to environmental stimuli is decreased.  CORRECT. About every 90 minutes, REM sleep recurs.
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Can the âWake to Sleepâ Method Help Lengthen Your Babyâs Short Naps? How You Can Use the “Wake to Sleep” Method to Lengthen Naps. The idea behind “wake to sleep” is that you’re “supporting” your child through the transition from one sleep cycle to the next. The first 20 or so minutes of a nap are light sleep, or REM sleep. After that, baby transitions into deeper, or non-REM, sleep. It’s during that transition period that babies often wake and aren’t able to get back to sleep.
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insomnia abnormal wakefulness; a sleep disorder consisting of an inability to fall asleep easily or to remain asleep throughout the night. The frequency of persistent insomnia is high; epidemiologic data indicate that it is the most common sleep disorder in the industrialized world.
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The Effects of Sleep Deprivation on Brain and Behavior What happens every time we get a bit of shut eye? Sleep occurs in a recurring cycle of 90 to 110 minutes and is divided into two categories: non-REM (which is further split into four stages) and REM sleep. Non-REM sleep. Stage one: Light Sleep. During the first stage of sleep, we're half awake and half asleep. Our muscle activity slows down and slight twitching may occur. This is a period of light sleep, meaning we can be awakened easily at this stage.
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- Sleep spindle. A sleep spindle is a burst of oscillatory brain activity visible on an EEG that occurs during stage 2 sleep. It consists of 12–14 Hz waves that occur for at least 0.5 seconds.[1][2] Sleep spindles are generated in the reticular nucleus of the thalamus.
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What happens to your body when you sleep? Sleep can be divided into two broad stages, non-rapid eye movement (NREM), and rapid eye movement (REM) sleep. The vast majority of our sleep (around 75 to 80 per cent) is NREM, characterised by electrical patterns in the brain known as ‘sleep spindles’ and high, slow delta waves. This is the time we sleep the deepest.
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Wakefulness Maintenance by the brain Wakefulness is produced by a complex interaction between multiple neurotransmitter systems arising in the brainstem and ascending through the midbrain, hypothalamus, thalamus and basal forebrain. The posterior hypothalamus plays a key role in the maintenance of
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sleep mode Sleep mode, sometimes called standby or suspend mode, is a power-sparing state that a computer can enter when not in use. The computer's state is maintained in RAM (random access memory). When the computer enters sleep mode, power is cut to any unneeded systems, while RAM receives just enough power to enable it to maintain data.
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Sleep onset latency Sleep onset latency. In sleep science, sleep onset latency (SOL) is the length of time that it takes to accomplish the transition from full wakefulness to sleep, normally to the lightest of the non-REM sleep stages. MSLT Scores.
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Overview of Facts, Symptoms, Features, and Cure of Sleep Paralysis Sleep paralysis is a transient inability to move or speak as one goes from sleep to wakefulness, without other findings characteristic of narcolepsy. In sleep paralysis, this often occurs while awakening (hypnopompic) as opposed to falling asleep (hypnagogic), which is more common in narcolepsy.
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- What is REM sleep? The brain cycles through five distinct phases during sleep: stages 1, 2, 3, 4, and rapid eye movement (REM) sleep. REM sleep makes up about 25% of your sleep cycle and first occurs about 70 to 90 minutes after you fall asleep. Because your sleep cycle repeats, you enter REM sleep several times during the night.
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Night Terrors Sleep Terrors. Sleep terrors, or night terrors, are a parasomnia condition in which the subject reacts to a foreboding sense of fear or terror by screaming, thrashing around or crying. They may also get out of bed and walk or run around, and adults are at a risk of performing violent acts during this time.
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Sleep spindle Uses of Sleep Spindles Edit. Sleep spindles are one of several measures employed by the brain to keep a sleeper in an unconscious state. This pattern is produced during sleep to inhibit the processing of unnecessary information, which would especially interrupt stage 2 sleep.
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What happens neurologically that causes us to wake up from sleep? Melatonin is the hormone that is most commonly associated with the sleep-wake cycle. Levels of melatonin vary throughout the day (and night) which helps regulate circadian rhythms in the body. [14] Melatonin levels are high at night (during sleep) and low during the day (during wakefulness). The levels of melatonin are regulated by the suprachiasmatic nucleus of the hypothalamus which reacts to the amount of light in the environment. So the darker it is outside of the body the more melatonin there is. [15]
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- Direct Download (70 KB) Don't Sleep is a small portable program to prevent system shutdown, Standby, Hibernate, Turn Off and Restart. Especially when old Programs run on Windows-10 or Windows 8.1 / 7. Here's more aggressive power-saving features with new rules.