PSY 251 Chapter Notes - Chapter 8: Slow-Wave Sleep, Adenosine Deaminase, Sleep Deprivation
3 Aug 2016
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Eeg during stage 2 sleep is generally irregular but contains periods of theta activity, K complexes, and sleep spindles sleep spindles are short bursts of 12-14 hz waves occurring between two and five times a minute during stages 1-4 of sleep. K complexes are sudden, sharp waveforms usually found only during stage 2 sleep which spontaneously occur at approximately one per minute but can often be triggered by noises (especially unexpected noises) Rem sleep results in alertness and attentiveness during the rest of the night (after rem sleep is reached), cycles of rem and non- Why do we sleep? most researchers believe the primary function of slow wave sleep is to allow the brain to rest slow wave and rem sleep promote different types of learning. Functions of slow-wave sleep only mammals and birds exhibit unequivocal rem sleep some mammals and birds can sleep with one hemisphere at a time.
