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This is the term for when someone gets up and walks around during NREM sleep
Sleep walking
Sleep that occurs at one hemisphere at a time
unihemispheric sleep
This is the graph used for analyzing an organisms activity and rest cycles throughout the day
Actogram
This sleep disorder is associated with reduced or stopped breathing that occurs during sleep
Sleep apnea
This type of Cognitive and Behavioral Therapy for Insomnia involves performing behaviors, prior to sleep, that is designed to get your body and mind to relax.
Relaxation training
These waves can be observed when someone is in an awake state and when someone is very relaxed, with an EEG of 8-12 Hz
Alpha
This is the brains primary excitatory neurotransmitter
Glutamate
This neurotransmitter is best known for its role in mood regulation and is associated with SSRI's
Serotonin
This type of dementia is a result of neuronal damage that occurs throughout the frontal and temporal lobes
Frontotemporal dementia
Your pineal gland will release this neurotransmitter a few hours before you fall asleep. Though it is considered a dietary supplement, it can be used for sleep and can be bought over-the-counter.
Melatonin (Melatonin supplements)
This area of the neuron contains lots of voltage-gated sodium (Na+) channels and is where the action potential is initiated.
Axon Hillock
Drugs that are used for schizophrenia are referred to as this term and most block dopamine activity.
antipsychotics
This hunger hormone is released by cells in your gut to increase appetite.
Ghrelin
This type of glial cell forms myelin sheaths on neurons in the peripheral nervous system
Schwan Cells
This type of cognitive and behavioral therapy for insomnia revolves around discovering and changing maladaptive thought processes around sleep and insomnia.
Cognitive therapy
This REM Sleep Parasmonia is described as the opposite of REM behavior disorder because of its muscle atonia that occurs while being awake just after awakening from sleep.
Sleep paralysis
This term is used to describe animals that are most active during the twilight hours, in the morning and evening, and sunrise and sunset
crepuscular
These neuropeptides maintain arousal and wakefulness. And are associated with narcolepsy because it may be a result of autoimmune destruction of these neurons of the hypothalamus.
Orexins (aka hypocretins)
This nervous system is responsible for initiating and maintaining your fight-or-flight response
sympathetic nervous system
These are the two antihistamines that are commonly used for sleep aids. They both induce sleepiness by blocking histamine receptors in the brain and are used to help with sleep and allergies. Both also slightly block some acetylcholine receptors; this can also cause a reduction in cognitive function along with sleepiness.
diphenhydramine and doxylamine
This type of cell detect light and send signals to the suprachiasmatic nucleus to let it know whether or not it is light or dark out
Photosensitive retinal ganglion cells
This type of narcolepsy is known because the patients do not experience cataplexy and the vast majority of them also show fairly normal levels of orexins in their cerebrospinal fluid.
Narcolepsy Type II (NT2)
Parkinsons disease is known for its accumulation of this protein that begins in dopamine neurons within the substantia nigra. These clumps are referred to as Lewy bodies.
α-synuclein
This protein accumulates outside of the neuron and accumulates to form plaques.
β-amyloid
Sedative-Hypnotic medications suppress neural activity and promote sleep. One of their main mechanisms is to increase these inhibitory neurotransmitters' activity. This neurotransmitter has been referred to in class as a bouncer because it inhibits activity.
GABA