Universality of Sleep
Sleep Measurement
Polysomnography
Circadian Rhythms
Notable Names
600

What is an example of "segmented" sleep that is still prevalent in many cultures?

Siesta

600

Polysomnography is the ____ of sleep measurement, but it is not always preferred.

Gold Standard

600

REM sleep is sometimes called ____.

paradoxical sleep

This is due to the EEG activity being remarkably similar to EEG activity while awake.

600

Chronotherapy to help with jet lag is typically administered at _____ lux.

10,000

600

He conducted numerous cave studies that provided a lot of information about how circadian rhythms change when not exposed to normal light/dark cycles.

Michel Siffre

700

There are approximately 60,000 vertebrate species.

Sleep has been studied in ___ of them.

less than 100

700

A benefit of sleep diaries includes:

Show nightly variability

Track sequences of events

Monitor therapeutic progress

Measure taken close in relation to sleep

700

Sleep stage scoring is typically done manually. The sleep data is typically segmented into _____.

30-second epochs

700

When do melatonin levels peak?

Mid-sleep

700

Ishimori and Pieron were sleep researchers who did some of the first work on ____ at the same time in 1906-1907.

Process S

Ishimori published his research first, but Pieron was more widely accessible due to it being in English.

800
Sandpipers have developed an adaptation to sleep loss. Across their 3-week mating period, male sandpipers experience numerous _____, and those who sleep the least often sire the most offspring.

Microsleeps

800

Perceived chronotype questionnaires tend to measure: 

propensity to sleep within the 24-hour period

800

The two distinctive sleep features that occur during N2 sleep are:

K-complexes and sleep spindles

800

What is the most accurate way of measuring the circadian pacemaker?

Dim-light melatonin onset

800

He invented EEG in 1924

Hans Berger

900

What is the cultural habit in Japan where individuals sleep while being present?

Inemuri

It is culturally accepted and is thought of being indicative of being a hard and diligent worker.

900

The amount of time it takes to fall asleep

sleep onset latency (SOL)

900

On a typical night, a young adult will generally have the majority of ___ sleep in the first half of the night, and the majority of ___ sleep in the second half of the night.

N3 or slow-wave sleep in the first half

REM sleep in second half

900

When a dog is injected with the CSF of a sleepy dog, what will happen?

It will become sleepy as well, falling asleep within 2-6 hours.

900

He developed the Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index (PSQI).

Dan Buysse

1000

True or False: Hibernation is the same as sleeping?

False

Hibernation is a state where body temperature and metabolism drops substantially, but it is not sleep. Animals still come out of hibernation to sleep.

1000

The definition of sleep

Sleep is a reversible behavioral state of perceptual disengagement from and unresponsiveness to the environment (usually marked by physiological changes and homeostatic regulation/rebound)

1000

The _____ typically occurs in sleep laboratories and is often accounted for by having a baseline overnight session prior to any experimental manipulation or sleep monitoring.

first night effect

1000

What are the periods of alertness that often occur prior to the onset of melatonin?

Wake maintenance zone

Often occur around/before dusk

1000

Recent translation found that ____ and ____ visually identified rapid eye movements in infants in 1926.

Maria Denisova and Nicholai Figurin

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