PSY 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 25: Slow-Wave Sleep, Narcolepsy, Brainstem
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Rem-sleep behavior disorder loss of muscle tone that usually accompanies rem sleep is absent. Able to [unch, kick, move and leave room in shambles. Myth that should not wake people up who are sleepwalking. Treatments: psycho therapy, hypnosis, drugs and awakening before sleep walking. Immobilization during sleep is adaptive because it reduces danger. Manifest content: surface story that is reported. Activation component: rem sleep bombards brain with random neural activity and since asleep makes no sense. Synthesis component: brain tries to make sense of the bizarre dream. Cognitive- process dream theories- focus more on the process of dreaming and the similarities between waking and dreaming. During rem sleep ras stimulates various modules in the cortex (&these. Brain best fits interpretations modules interact just as they do when we are awake) Emotional modules may overlay and emotional theme. Brain tries to provide the best fit of these internally generated images.
