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Biological Rhythms and Sleep
Sleep Disorders
Dreams
The Brain
Dependence and Addiction
100
The biological clock.
What is circadian rhythm?
100
Characterized by uncontrollable sleep attacks.
What is narcolepsy?
100
A sequence of images, emotions, and thoughts passing through a sleeping person's mind. Notable for hallucinatory imagery, discontinuities, and incongruities.
What are dreams?
100

It's a visual display of where glucose goes to perform a task

What is PET scan?

100
The diminishing effect with regular use of the same dose of a drug, requiring the user to take larger and larger doses before experiencing the drug's effect.
What is tolerance?
200
False sensory experiences, such as seeing something in the absence of an external visual stimulus.
What is hallucination?
200
Recurring problems in falling or staying asleep.
What is insomnia?
200
According to Freud, the underlying meaning of a dream.
What is latent content?
200

This technique is used to measure electrical activity in the brain's neurons.

What is an EEG?

200
The discomfort and distress that follow discontinuing the use of an addictive drug.
What is withdrawal?
300
A recurring sleep stage during which vivid dreams commonly occur.
What is REM sleep?
300
Occurs during stage 4 sleep, within 2 or 3 hours of falling asleep, and are seldom remembered.
What are night terrors?
300
According to Freud, the remembered story line of a dream.
What is manifest content?
300

The hypothalamus, amygala, and hippocampus is part of this.

What is the limbic system?

300
A chemical substance that alters perceptions and moods.
What is psychoactive drug?
400
The relatively slow brain waves of a relaxed, awake state.
What are alpha waves?
400
Temprorary cessations of breathing during sleep and repeated momentary awakenings.
What is sleep apnea?
400
The tendency for REM sleep to increase following REM sleep deprivation.
What is REM rebound?
400

This lobe has a cortex that outputs motor information.

What is a frontal lobe?

400

Drugs that arouse neural activity, causing speeded-up body functions and associated energy and mood changes.

What are stimulants?

500
The large, slow brain waves associated with deep sleep.
What are delta waves?
500
Usually harmless, and unrecalled the next morning. Typically return to bed on your own or are guided by a family member.
What is sleepwalking?
500
A dream theory which states that dreams help us sort out the day's events and consolidate our memories.
What is information-processing theory?
500

Logic, details, word definitions, speech and etc. are controlled by this hemisphere. 

What is the left hemisphere?

500

Drugs that arouse neural activity, causing speeded-up body functions and associated energy and mood changes.

What is THC?