PSYC 1010 Chapter Notes - Chapter 5: Sleepwalking, Digital Negative, Non-Rapid Eye Movement Sleep

• School: York University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 1010
• Professor: Margot Sullivan

Document Summary

Hallucinogens- are a diverse group of drugs that have powerful effects on mental and emotional functioning, marked most prominently by distortions in sensory and perceptual experience. Mdma ( ecstacy )- is a compound drug related to both amphetamines and hallucinogens, especially mescaline. Rem sleep behaviour disorder (rbd)- is marked by potentially troublesome dream enactments during rem periods. Electroencephalograph- is a device that monitors the electrical activity of the brain over time by means of recording electrodes attached to the surface of the scalp. Neurogenesis- refers to the formation of new neurons. Tolerance- refers to a progressive decrease in a person"s responsiveness to a drug. Slow-wave sleep (sws)- consists of sleep stages 3 and 4, during which high-amplitude, low- frequency delta waves become prominent in eeg recordings. Sedatives- are sleep-inducing drugs that tend to decrease central nervous system (cns) activation and behavioural activity. Narcolepsy- is a disease marked by sudden and irresistible onsets of sleep during normal waking periods.