Circadian rhythm sleep disorder

a neurological disorder that effects your control to sleep, people with the disorder experience excessive daytime sleepiness. People have uncontrolled episodes of falling asleep during the day. Although this disorder usually begins between the ages of 15-25 it can become deceptive at any age. The sleep “attacks” can occur during any type of activity, at any time. In a typical sleep cycle, you enter many different stages of sleep throughout the night. You enter early stages of sleep then followed…

The concept that caught my attention was the “Sleep and Dreams” in Module 9 because it includes a series of sleeping disorders that I experience occasionally. Sleep is an important element that helps people conserve energy, improve their memory, feel better, and stay healthy. However, there are many different sleeping disorders that prevents people from receiving the numerous beneficial that sleep provides. One of the major sleeping disorders that many people are suffering from is insomnia, a…

laboratory task and collected estimates of the frequencies of mind wandering and sleep-related disturbances in everyday life. In order to evaluate the impact of mind-wandering a sleepiness on task performance they used the Sustained Attention to Response Task (SART) in which they implanted…

Sleep, defined as a naturally recurring state of mind and body characterized by altered consciousness, relatively inhibited sensory activity, inhibition of nearly all voluntary muscles, and reduced interactions with surroundings. As humans, we all experience sleep, however, others experience it differently. Although sleep is relatively important for all humans, each human encounters sleep differently. For example, one can sleep through the night without a problem, whereas others will experience…

In the article Children’s sleep disturbance scale in differentiating neurological disorders, the hypothesis of the review article is sleep disturbances can differentiate from children with different neurological disorders. The Children’s sleep disturbance scale in differentiating neurological disorders states that children with specific neurological disorders like epilepsy, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder or others may differ depending on what kind of sleep disturbances that they are…

Tired from a bad night’s sleep? Looking for a normal, non-drug treatment for insomnia, anxiety, stress, ADHD, or autism? The cure can come in the form of a weighted blanket and you need to add this essential product to your household items. Originally made for children with autism, weighted blankets have come into the forefront for their supposed calming and sleep-inducing effects. Weighted blankets help you lighten up as the additional pressure makes you exactly feel that you are being held or…

In this paper we will be talking about sleep apnea. We will discuss exactly what it is, the symptoms and the people who are more prone to having this illness. Sleep apnea is one of many sleeping disorders that many Americans live with. According to the Statistic brain institute approximately 40 million Americans have chronic sleeping disorders, 62% of American adults experience a sleep problem a few nights per week. This institute has also discovered that 30% of all adults have insomnia in the…

Sleep paralysis is a very common sleep disorder. Out of the entire population, about 7.6% of people will have at least one encounter in there lifetime. The two most common groups of people who experience sleep paralysis are students, and psychiatric patients (Sharpless 2011.). Sharpless wrote that in a study, about 28% of students and 32% of psychiatric patients have occurred at least one encounter of sleep paralysis. With the patients, their disorder could cause them to not get a good night’s…

My sleep behavior is rather healthy and regulated. Since I am a student, I do not get the chance to exercise or nap, and since I am underage, I cannot drink alcohol and do not consume much caffeine. I found that my stress level does not affect my sleep patterns, since I am a heavy sleeper and have a healthy amount of stress in my life. Based on past experience, the only event that affects my sleep behavior is excitement for the next day and that was not apparent during the week of the log. I…

Sleep is necessary to our survival. To be well rested, the average adult needs 7 to 8 hours of sleep each night, but the average adult only sleeps less than 7 hours a night.1 There are two types of sleep: rapid eye movement (REM) and non-REM sleep, which has three stages.1 There are many things that may effect the quality of sleep, caffeine being one of them. The effects of caffeine on sleep has been studied in many experiments.2-5 In all the studies, it has been found that caffeine alters the…