Psychology 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Neurotransmitter Receptor, Hypothermia, Clozapine

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 1000
• Professor: Laura Reid

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2. hypnogenic system is activated (basal forebrain and brain stem) *pons is critical for rem sleep as it contains. Sleep-on neurons that activate different regions that control rem sleep. Serotonin, dopamine and norepinephrine have an important role in arousal. Poorer performance and underestimated the effects of sleep deprivation on their performance. *sleep apnea reflexive gasping for air that awakens individual. *rem-sleep behavior disorder loss of muscle tone that usually accompanies. *night terrors intense arousal and panic- nrem (stage 3 and 4) Sleep helps animals to restore energy/other bodily resources. Immobilization during sleep is adaptive because it reduces danger. 4. cognitive- process dream theories focus more on the process of dreaming and the similarities between waking and dreaming. During rem sleep, ras stimulates various modules in the cortex (and these modules interact just as they do when we are awake) -brain tries to provide the best fit of these internally generated images.