PCS 181 Lecture Notes - Lecture 17: Adenosine Receptor, Sleep Inertia, Slow-Wave Sleep
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When a substance abuse happen, we think that it is addiction, abuse, misuse and then tolerance and withdrawal and then the consequences of it. Buzz": continuous use causing financial, physical problems and consequences. Behavioural addiction (facebooking does it meet the above 4 criteria?) ***he/she is addicted to the behavior or the feeling experienced by acting out the behavior. Brain plasticity and pruning: when we sleep that"s when pruning occurs. We expend a lot of energy when we are awake and when we sleep we conserve energy. Breathing, muscle movement used to diagnose sleep apnea, restless leg syndrome. Does not coincide with what other people say they did: some people say that they slept for 1 hour but this physiological experimental study say they slept for 4/5 hours. Not a very convenient study because you have to carry a device. The night is divided into 30 sec chunks.