Psychology 2221B Chapter Notes - Chapter 14: Periodic Limb Movement Disorder, Inferior Colliculus, Epigenetic Clock
11 Mar 2017
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Sleepwalking stages 3/4, never during rem , core muscles totally relaxed. Interpretation of the effects of sleep deprivation: the stress problem: western cultures sleep little/ irregularly do so b/c under stress, adverse effects independent any sleep loss= interpret results with caution. Predictions of recuperation theories about sleep deprivation: long periods wakefulness produce physiological and behavioral disturbances, these disturbances grow steadily worse as sleep deprivation continues, after period deprivation ended, much missed sleep regained. 4th night= same daily cycle: randy gardner: 14 hours after being awake 11 days and 8 hours after 1st day. Sleep-deprivation studies with laboratory animals: carousal apparatus- used deprive rats sleep= 2 rats, experimental and yoked control, placed in separate chambers, eeg activity experimental rat sleeping, disk= slowly rotate. Identification circadian genes provided more direct method exploring circadian timing capacitates parts body other than scn. Four areas of the brain involved in sleep:
