The MSLT is performed during the day to measure a person's tendency to fall asleep and to determine whether isolated elements of REM sleep intrude at inappropriate times during the waking hours. As part of the test, an individual is asked to take four or five short naps usually scheduled two hours apart. Following these tests the examining doctor will begin to ask the following; if there are any physical injuries or factors that may have lead to the narcolepsy, whether you are on medication, if you have other sleep disorders that could be other than narcolepsy, if you use or abuse drugs or alcohol and if family members also have narcolepsy. The doctor will also take administer a physical exam which will check for other possible conditions
I am a 55 year old woman with high blood pressure, among other physical health issues. I have also been diagnosed with depression and anxiety. Therefore, among my various different medications, I take blood pressure medications, heart medications, anti-depressant medication, and anxiety medication which all make me very drowsy during the daytime. Although these medications make me drowsy during the day, I try to stay very active and awake because, no matter what, I have problems sleeping through the night. I believe that the medications I am prescribed for my health issues present me with biological factors which influence my sleep patterns.
An example of primary insomnia might be shift work insomnia where a person may well be attempting to sleep at times when their body clock tells them they should be awake. There are numerous subtypes of primary insomnia including; psychophysiological insomnia which is a form of anxiety-induced insomnia caused by a worry about getting a lack of sleep, idiopathic insomnia which is a lifelong sleeplessness and sleep state misinterpretation where people sleep adequately but feel they do not. Supporting evidence include Smith’s study where patients with insomnia were studies, as well as a control group of normal sleepers and they were studied for 3 nights with whole brain scans conducted on the third night. Patients with insomnia showed consistent and significant decreases in blood flow compared to good
AO1 Neural: The neural explanation of sleepwalking suggests that sleepwalking is caused by immaturity of neural circuits in the brain causing the brain to be in a different state than normal sleepers. This is demonstrated by Olivero who found that sleepwalking is more frequent in children because the inhibitory system is underdeveloped, so that insufficient quantities of GABA allow motor activity (GABA is released during in normal sleepers to prevent
Leshner states, “As with many other brain diseases, addiction has embedded behavioral and social-context aspects that are important parts of the disorder itself” (Leshner). Recognizing addiction as a mental illness can help reduce the health and social costs that are directly related to treating addiction. Research has exposed that drug abuse is a severe health issue, as well as a social issue. Addicts become so obsessed with consuming the substance it causes their immune systems to shut down and causes the addict to be incapable of functioning properly in a social setting. Addiction has severe negative consequences affecting the addict’s mental and physical well being.
Experimental Research PSY/285 February 17, 2013 Experimental Research Pharmaceutical Research: Sleeping Aids There are many different kinds of sleeping aids that can help someone fall asleep today. Insomnia is when a person has a hard time falling asleep, staying asleep, or a disturbance in the quality of sleep a person gets that will make them feel they are not well rested when they do wake. Insomnia is more common today then we think, about 10% of adults suffer from severe insomnia. Lack of sleep may cause someone to have no motivation, mood swings, and not be able to function to their full potential. Insomnia has also been known to cause depression, anxiety, and stress, which in turn can cause other health problems.
It is through this research that scientists have recognized the differences in brains of people with bipolar and those with healthy brains who are not exhibiting signs of the illness. It is these differences in brain function that are assisting scientists in developing insight into the underlying causes of the disorder to gain insight into which treatments will be most effective in treating each type of the disorder. (Soares, 1997) Despite the extensive research, Bipolar Disorder remains one of the most difficult disorders to diagnose and
It seems that our brain is designed to collect knowledge during daytime and analyze them at nighttime. Some studies mentioned in the article show why humans need a minimum of six hours of sleep in order to have better performance in daily activities. What remain to be undetermined is the chemicals involved in this process, or how our brain can process information while we are unconscious. The truth is that researches clearly demonstrate that our brain is active during sleep and that this process is more complex than we think. Before reading this article, I thought that while we slept our brain simply in a “resting” stage.
| Sleep is one of the important dimensions toward health and wellness and not getting enough of it can have negative consequences. Sleep deprivation happens for many reasons; intentional and unintentional reasons. Often it is a sleeping disorder that causes the deprivation. Things like work, hobbies, television, or parties are activities people generally tend to put extra time towards, which could result in sleep deprivation. They are events we intentionally put forth time and effort even when it is cutting into our sleep time, though at times they are unintentionally overlapping into our sleeping.
This article deals with the many processes of the brain during the many different stages of sleep that all people experience throughout the night. In his research Stickgold uses some victims of amnesia to help him conduct his research. His research suggests that much of our dreams come from “declarative memory” which consists of our recent experiences. Since people that suffer from amnesia do not have the ability to reproduce declarative memories therefore they should not be able to have dreams about what