Vocabulary I
The tendency for REM sleep to increase following REM sleep deprivation.
What is REM rebound?
This theory of sleep that REM helps develop and preserve neural pathways
What is physiological function theory of dreams?
Persistent problems in either falling or staying asleep that result is tiredness and increased risk of depression
What is insomnia?
When a user needs to take more of a drug to achieve the previous effect at lower doses.
What is Tolerance?
Sleep has ___ distinct stages through which we cycle about every ____ minutes:
four, 90
The type of sleep stage you generally dream in.
What is REM?
Dream theory proposes that dreams may help sift, sort, and fix the day’s experiences in our memory.
Information-processing
Those with this disorder experience continued substance craving and use despite significant life disruption and/or physical risk.
What is Substance abuse disorder?
This is the biological clock that regulates bodily rhythms that occur on a 24-hour cycle, such as body temperature or wakefulness.
What is circadian rhythm?
Happen during stage one of sleep;you might feel weightless, or like you're falling.
What is hypnagogic sensation?
Having sudden attacks of overwhelming sleepiness, usually lasting less than 5 minutes.
What is narcolepsy?
Which stimulant is involved in dopamine "non - re-uptake?"
What is cocaine?
cocaine binds to receptor sites, preventing dopamine from being re-uptaken so it stays in the synapse, intensifying your mood
a periodic, natural loss of consciousness.
Sleep
Brain waves associated with light sleep, like Stage 1.
What are Theta Waves?
When muscle paralysis during REM sleep does not occur.
What is REM sleep behavior disorder (RBD)?
What type of a drug is Methamphetamine? Name one pleasurable effect and one harmful effect.
What is a stimulant. Pleasurable effects:euphoria, alertness, energy. Harmful effects: irritability, insomnia, hypertension, seizures
a pair of grain-of-rice –sized cell clusters in the hypothalamus that helps in waking up a person when it is activated by light-sensitive retinal proteins. It works with the pineal gland.
Suprachiasmatic nucleus (SCN)
These EEG readings are bursts of rapid, rhythmic brain-wave activity. Happen during NREM-2
What are sleep spindles?
What is the activation synthesis theory of dreams?
REM sleep triggers neural activites that evoke random visual memories, which our sleeping brain weaves into stories.
an NREM-3 disorder characterized by high arousal and the appearance of being terrified
What is Night terrors?
What type of drugs is Ecstasy, also known as MDMA? With repeated use there are harmful effects. What type of neurons are destroyed with repeated use and how does it affect a person?
What is a synthetic stimulant and mild hallucinogen?What are serotonin-producing neurons, this may permanently depress mood and impair memory?