Exam 11: Sleep and Waking

 Americans are believed to be somewhat sleep deprived because the average adult spends about _____ in bed (and not necessarily asleep).

 It is most likely that sleep

 Selective deprivation of NREM sleep produces complaints of

 Sleep terrors usually occur during

 Cells forming the retinohypothalamic pathway contain

 Jennifer's grandmother has been diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease. Recently, her grandmother has been using a nicotine patch in an effort to boost her abilities to concentrate. Is this strategy likely to work?

 School board member Lineman has proposed that his district change the school times so that classes begin later in the morning because he knows that this will

 Unless some type of pathology is present, the first segment of sleep is

 Evening and night shift workers experience

 Megan is participating in an EEG study at her university. Currently, she is awake, relaxed, and staring out the window while the technician takes some baseline readings. Which pattern of brain waves is most likely to be recorded from Megan's brain at this time?

 Discuss what is currently known about the role of sleep in memory formation.

 External cues, such as the rising of the sun, used by animals to establish daily rhythms are known as

 Shirely's electroencephalogram (EEG) indicates desynchronous activity. She is likely

 Joshua, who is 19 years old, can't seem to get to sleep until about 2 a.m. and then struggles to get up on time in order to attend morning classes. It is most likely that Joshua

 At what age do humans show the highest proportion of delta wave activity?

 The anterior raphe nuclei show the same pattern of activation during states of consciousness as the

 The extent of an organism's sleep debt is tracked by which of the following structures?

 Which of the following structures are active during REM sleep but not during wakefulness or NREM sleep?

 Given the fact that MDD is correlated with low levels of serotonin activity, explain why we would expect abnormalities of REM sleep in people diagnosed with depression. What types of sleep patterns would we expect to see? How would medications boosting serotonin activity affect sleep?

 Discuss the EEG patterns characteristic of each sleep stage.