REM sleep

(noun)

The stage of sleep during which most brain activity and dreams occur, characterized by rapid eye movement (REM).

Examples of REM sleep in the following topics:

  • Stages of Sleep

    • For this reason REM sleep is sometimes also called "active sleep."
    • Stage 2 non-REM sleep is characterized by sleep spindles and K-Complexes.
    • Stage 3 of non-REM sleep is considered the start to "deep sleep."
    • REM sleep accounts for 20–25% of total sleep time in most human adults.
    • Differentiate among REM sleep and the three phases of N-REM sleep
  • The Nature and Meaning of Dreams

    • Dreaming and REM sleep are simultaneously controlled by different brain mechanisms.
    • The hypothesis states that the function of sleep is to process, encode, and transfer data from short-term memory to long-term memory through a process called consolidation.
    • NREM sleep processes the conscious-related memory (declarative memory), and REM sleep processes the unconscious related memory (procedural memory).
    • The underlying assumption of continual-activation theory is that, during REM sleep, the unconscious part of the brain is busy processing procedural memory.
  • Sleep-Wake Disorders

    • Sleep disorders cause sleep disturbances that affect the amount, quality, or timing of sleep or that induce abnormal events during sleep.
    • Sleep-wake disorders cause a number of sleep disturbances that affect the amount, quality, or timing of sleep or that induce abnormal events during sleep.
    • Most parasomnias are due to partial arousal during the transitions between wakefulness and non-rapid-eye-movement (N-REM) sleep or between wakefulness and rapid-eye-movement (REM) sleep.
    • Sleep terrors typically occur in the first few hours of sleep, during stage 3 NREM sleep.
    • The nightmares, which often portray the individual in a situation that jeopardizes their life or personal safety, usually occur during the second half of the sleeping process, called the REM stage.
  • Introduction to Sleep

    • Research on rats has found that a week of no sleep leads to loss of immune function, and two weeks of no sleep leads to death.
    • When we do not sleep enough, we accumulate a sleep debt.
    • Though there is no magic sleep number, there are general rules for how much sleep certain age groups need.
    • A newborn baby spends almost 9 hours a day in REM sleep.
    • By the age of five, only slightly over two hours is spent in REM.
  • Paralysis

    • Temporary paralysis occurs during REM sleep, and dysregulation of this system can lead to episodes of waking paralysis.
    • Most paralyses caused by nervous-system damage (i.e. spinal-cord injuries) are constant in nature; however, some forms of periodic paralysis, including sleep paralysis, are caused by other factors.
  • Cholinergic Neurons and Receptors

    • ACh has also been shown to promote REM sleep.
  • The Human Eye

    • Rapid Eye Movement - Often referred to as REM, this happens in the sleep stage when most vivid dreams occur.
  • Circadian Rhythms

    • The circadian pacemaker, located in the SCN, regulates the timing and consolidation of the sleep-wake cycle, while sleep-wake homeostasis governs the accumulation of sleep debt and sleep recovery.
    • The sleepiness we experience during these circadian dips will be less intense if we have had sufficient sleep, and more intense when we are sleep deprived.
    • Segmented sleep, also known as interrupted or divided sleep, is a multiphasic sleep pattern in which two or more periods of sleep are punctuated by periods of wakefulness.
    • Roger Ekirch, a historian who has researched segmented sleep extensively, argues that segmented sleep was the dominant form of human sleep before the Industrial Revolution.
    • Together, these results imply that segmented sleep is indeed our natural sleep rhythm.
  • The Gorgon's Head

    • Céterae Gorgonés statim é somnó excitátae sunt, et ubi rem vídérunt, írá commótae sunt.
  • The Human Sacrifice

    • Illí rem tótam expónunt et puellam démónstrant.
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