Sleep
The number of sleep stages
What is 4? 3 Non-REM and 1 REM
The inability to fall or stay asleep that affects 10% of the population
What is insomnia?
What are the four categories of psychoactive drugs?
What are stimulant, depressant, hallucinogen, and opioids?
A common mild hallucinogen
What is marijuana?
This psychologist used hypnosis to decrease the effects of somatoform disorders in patients.
Who is Freud?
biological clock; regular bodily rhythms that occur on a 25-hour cycle.
What is the Circadian Rhythm?
What is Narcolepsy?
High can last for upwards of 8 hours where the user feels elated with a rush of confidence
What are the effects of methamphetamine?
What is marijuana?
What is hypnosis?
Delta Waves
What are the brain waves present in Stages 2 and 3?
Waking up screaming, sometimes walking, having no recollection of the dream
What are night terrors?
Increased neural activity and heart and breathing rates, and increased positivity, confidence, and energy
What are the effects of a stimulant?
What are heroin and morphine?
This is the ability to learn to control bodily functions through the use of machines.
What is biofeedback?
90 minutes
What is the length of the average sleep cycle?
What is Fatal Familial Insomnia?
Slow neural activity and bodily functions
What are the effects of a depressant?
Increase in pleasure chemicals while on the drugs, but body cannot produce them naturally after taking the drug
What are the effects of Opioids?
This is the focusing of attention to clear one’s mind and produce relaxation.
What is meditation?
Stage IV (REM Sleep) characteristics
What is: high-frequency brain waves, increased pulse & breathing, paralysis of large muscles & dreaming, may help w/learning & consolidating new memories
A sudden, brief loss of control of muscles. Often associated with Narcolepsy.
What is catoplexy?
10x more likely to die from lung cancer if you ingest...
What is nicotine?
Name one drug from each category.
Stimulants -- caffeine, nicotine, cocaine
Depressants -- Alcohol, barbiturates
Hallucinogen -- Marijuana, LSD
Opioids -- Heroin, Morphine
These are the effects of meditation.
What is lowering blood pressure, heart rate and respiration, and an increase in empathy?