Non-rapid eye movement sleep

than 1% of girls have inherited Rett Syndrome and most cases are spontaneous. Rett Syndrome affects many parts of brain, especially those in charge of sensory, motor, autonomic, emotional and cognitive functions. This means that speech, mood, movement, life sustaining functions, learning, and sensory perception can be affected. Rett Syndrome can have a large array of symptoms ranging from mild to severe, which is determined by the location and severity of the mutation. Symptoms of Rett…

for this phenomenon. All these are just hallucinations accompanied by extreme fear. They just see things that are not physically present. However, that doesn’t mean those people that experience this are crazy. It’s called sleep paralysis. Over the centuries, symptoms of sleep paralysis have been described in many ways and often attributed to an "evil" presence, unseen night demons in ancient times, the old hag in Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet, and alien abductors. A night hag or old hag is a…

Sleep is a natural period of inactivity of the body. It is a human instinct that has no simplification as to why it even occurs. Even though there is no main reason why we sleep, scientists have created theories for why we sleep. The body possesses a rhythm called circadian rhythm. The circadian rhythm controls wakeness and sleepiness throughout a twenty-four-hour interval. There are two factors that occur to regulate the rhythm. The first is a drive to sleep that gets stronger each hour…

person’s personal life, days can be extremely tiresome. Somedays one might even feel as if they could sleep for days and never wake up. However, this is evidently impossible. Unless one falls into a coma. As children, most of us had wet the bed, or had constant bad dreams. Good news is, nearly everyone grows out of both. However, some don 't. Some children even experience far more worse cases of sleep disorders. As the child ages it might or might not get better. As teenagers, the person may…

The human mind is always conscious using sensation and perception to be aware of its surroundings. During every conversation we have we are making connections and we are aware of what we are doing. This is mindfulness a good example of this is when you are talking to a friend you notice her facial expression, body posture, and what she looks like etcetera. We make these connections without really thinking about it but all day and night we are constantly making connections and learning and…

Some people may think that they have insomnia because they have trouble sleeping at night or they feel as if they can’t sleep at all. Insomnia is a complicated condition in which falling asleep or staying asleep is difficult. The word insomnia is Latin and means “no sleep”. Waking up often and having trouble going back to sleep characterize it. There are two types of insomnia, primary and secondary insomnia, in primary this means that an individual is having problems sleeping but it is not…

confusional arousals, sleep terrors, REM sleep behaviour disorder, recurrent isolated or sleep paralysis. People experience many of these in a lifetime but have little information on the reasons for their occurrences. Parasomnias are troublesome events that can happen physically or experientially to an individual during sleep. They aren’t unusual for a person to experience in their life. Many types can exist and some of these types include emotions, sleep-related movements, behaviours,…

York Times article “Manage Fatigue in a Nonstop World With a Nap” by Tony Schwartz (2013) insisted that even short naps can improve our performances based on his experience and studies. Knowing the importance of sleep, Schwartz decided to take a nap when his energy was due to lack of sleep. According to him, after his 15 to 20-minute nap, his mind was refreshed and he found no trouble to get back to his work, which he could not even imagine to do earlier. He refered to the study in which the…

Sleep deprivation induces vital reductions in performance attention. Reducing your nighttime sleep by as very little as one and a half hours for only one night may lead to a decrease of daytime alertness by as much as 32%. Not sleeping enough and not sleeping well isn 't OK, as a matter of reality, there 's quite a value to pay. It’s going to surprise you to find out that chronic sleep deprivation, for whatever reason, significantly affects your health, performance, the safety of your…

essential because without an appropriate amount of sleep, the hours spent awake can become impacted. Unfortunately, sleep disorders can affect a person’s sleeping abilities. Narcolepsy is one example of a sleep disorder that will affect someone at night and through the day. Narcolepsy can be defined as a neurological disorder where the person experiences daytime sleepiness, usually at inappropriate times, cataplexy, hypnagogic hallucinations, and sleep paralysis. Researchers have recently…