01:830:310 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Delta Wave, Immune System, Alpha Wave

• School: Rutgers University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: 01:830:310
• Professor: Professor Mayhew

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Epilepsy is the last thing on the exam (whether that gets done today or on monday) Eeg: the way to go if you want to know whether someone is actually sleeping or not. By putting electrode near eyes, can measure when eyes are moving. Emg: we are getting muscle movement in this type of test. In addition, there is also respiratory rate measure and taking measurements of o2. Eeg patterns are associated with particular behavioral states. There are two kinds of waves that show you"re awake. Frequency: how frequent the waves are per second. You get alpha waves (not standard awake but the relaxed awake) The kinds of waves when you are deeply asleep. There are fewer waves and they are much bigger. There used to be four stages of sleep. Stage 1: barely falling asleep (can still hear things, eyes are closed, theta waves0. Stage 2: deeper sleep (k complexes: very specific to this stage;