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What is sleep?

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  • a readily reversible state of reduced responsiveness to , and interaction with the environment
  • not readily reversible:
    • coma
    • general anesthesia
    • death
  • —> these do not qualify as sleep
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EEG (electroencephalogram

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  • general activity of the cerebral cortex
  • fluctuations in voltage between any given 2 electrodes
  • = excitation of cortical neurons
  • because signal must penetrate so many layers of non neural tissue = thousands of neurons must fire in unison to generate visible signal
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wakefulness and stages of sleep are characterized by…..

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-different patterns of brain activity

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Awake and Alert

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  • Beta activity
    • 13-30 Hz
  • desychronized
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Awake and Relaxed

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-Alpha activity
8-12 Hz
-increasing synchronicity
-more prevalent with eyes closed

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Stage 1 Sleep

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-theta activity
-3.5-7.5 Hz
-transition between sleep and wakefulness
eyelids slowly open and close and eyes roll up and down
LASTS ABOUT 10 minutes during first sleep cycle

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Stage 2 Sleep

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-some theta activity
-3.5-7.5 Hz
-sleep spindles
-12-14 Hz (beta-eque)
-short bursts 2-4 per minute
-K complexes
-sudden sharp waveforms
-1 per minute
-triggered by noises = mechanism to inhibit waking?
LASTS ABOUT !% minutes during first sleep cycle

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Slow Wave sleep (SWS)

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-Delta activity
< 3.5 Hz
-difficult to wake people from SWS and when awakened, report no dreaming, but may remember image or emotion

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Stage 3 sleep

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-some theta activity
-20-50% delta
~20 minutes in first sleep cycle

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stage 4 sleep

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-some theta activity
> 50% delta
-deepest sleep
~ 45 min in first sleep cycle

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Delta Waves

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-show oscillations of ~1 Hz

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down state

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  • neurons are silent

- may reflect rest for cortical neurons

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up state

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-neurons show burst of activity that is highly synchronized

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REM sleep

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  • theta activity (like stage 1,2,2)
    • 3.5-7.5 Hz
  • Beta activity (like wakefulness)
    • 13-30 Hz
  • Paradoxical Sleep
  • people awakened easily from REM sleep and report vivid dreams
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Paradoxical SLeep

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-EEG shows desychronized brain activity reminiscent of wakefulness

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Sleep Cycle

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  • sleep alternates between REM and nREM (stages 1-4) in 90 minute sleep cycles
  • in avg. 8 hours of sleep you experience 4-5 bouts of REM sleep
  • as night progresses stage 2 and REM sleep are prolonged and SWS is reduced
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Stage 1 physiological changes

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  • muscle activity reduced

- occasional muscle twitch

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Stage 2 Physiological changes

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  • breathing and heart rate slows

- decrease in body temperature

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SWS Physiological changes

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  • slow rhythmic breathing

- limited muscle activity

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REM Physiological changes

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  • rapid eye movement
  • muscles relax
  • breathing is rapid and shallow
  • heart rate increases
  • sexual tissue engorges
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Rate of blood flow during REM

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  • high in visual association cortex
    • hallucinations/dreams?
  • low in primary visual cortex
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Eye movements during REM

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-seem to match eye movements that would be made while watching their dream

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Particular brain activity during dreams

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  • cortical and subcortical motor mechanisms active when dreams involve movement
  • temporal lobe activity when dreams involve speech
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Why do we sleep? Adaptation view

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-sleep gives organism safety from danger or predation when they are not suited to puse food or other biological needs

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Why do we sleep? Not necessarily for adaptation view
- Indus dolphin of Pakistan - this dolphin does not sleep in a safe place with no predation - dolphin can not stop swimming while sleeping because of dangerous current and debris - sleeps 7 hours per day via 4-60 second microsleeps
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Why do we sleep? general view
- not just to rest our bodies - sleep deprication does not interfere with ability to exercise - sleep might rest the brain - sleep deprivation affects cognitive abilities - perceptual distortions - hallucinations - trouble concentrating
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What is most important for optimal brain activity?
- slow wave and REM sleep | - these stages comprise more of total sleep following deprivation
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Brain resting during sleep
- tasks that require concentration increase glucose utilization in the frontal lobes - slow wave activity is greatest in frontal lobes during nREM sleep
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Huber et al. (2004)
-people that learned a motor task just before going to sleep showed heightened slow wave activity in cortex activated by task
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What can aid the consolidation of memories?
SLEEP!
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declarative memories
- things you can describe - events - spatial relationships
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Non-declarative memories
- things learned through experience - how to drive a car - recognize a face
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REM is important for the consoliation of what type of memory?
-non-declarative
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EXPERIMENT Participants learned non-declarative visual discrimination task 1. one group allowed a 90 minutes nap (EEG used to determine who got REM sleep) 2. other group allowed no nap tested 9 hours later resulted in:???????
- subjects without nap performed worst - subjects with only slow wave sleep performed the same as before - subjects that entered REM performed significantly better
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EXPERIMENT Participants learned a list of words (declarative) or trace a pattern on paper while looking in a mirror (non-declarative) 1. one group allowed a 1 hour nap 9 with no REM) 2. other group was not allowed a nap tested 6 hours later, results: ????????
- slow wave sleep increase performance on declarative task but not non-declarative task - --->need slow wave sleep in order to consolidate memories!!!!!
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Sigmund Freud (1856-1939)
- dreams are tiggered by unacceptable repressed wishes (usually sexual) - psychoanalysis involved dream interpretation to expose and confront patients subconscious "wishes"
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Activation-Synthesis Theory (Hobson 1989)
- during REM brain stem circuits (pons) become activated and send information to cortex - cortex takes "random" activations and tries to compose a cohesive story
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Neurobiology of Sleep
- two areas of the hypothalamus have problems if excessive sleep or difficulty sleeping is observed - Discovered by Constantin von Economo during WWI outbreak of encephalitis lethargica
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excessive sleep
- lisions of the posterior hypothalamus | - involved in wakefulness
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difficulty sleeping
- lesions of the anterior hypothalamus | - involved in falling sleep
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reticular formation
- structure in the brain stem that sends projections to thalamus and cortex - electrical stimulation of reticular formation awakend sleeping cats
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lesions in reticular formation
-disrupted sleep-wake cycles
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low activity in reticular formation
-produces sleep
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high activity in reticular formation
-produces wakefulness
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caudal RAS nuclei
- control various aspects of REM sleep - muscle paralysis - rapid eye movement - limb twitches - EEG desychronization
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What percentage of people report significant sleep related problems?
30%
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Insomnia
all disorders of initiating and maintaining sleep - most cases drug-related - sleep apnea (cessation of breathing during sleep) - restless leg syndrome = tension in legs that disrupts sleep
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Narcolepsy
- 1/2000 people - severe daytime sleepiness and brief (10-15 minutes) daytime sleep episodes - may result from genetic mutation in a gene related to orexin
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Cataplexy
- recurring loss of muscle tone during wakefulness - often triggered by strong emotion - may stem from abnormality in mechanisms that mediate REM
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Narcoleptics
- go straight into REm when they fall asleep - experience sleep paralysis = paralysis just as falling asleep - hypnogogic hallucinations = dreamlike states during wakefulness
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orexin
- neurotransmitter in neurons of the posterior hypothalamus which project all over brain - reduced orexin in CSF of narcoleptics - important in wakefulness!
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sleep paralysis
- period of inability to perform voluntary movements either at sleep onset or upon wakening - may be accompanied by visual and/or auditory hallucinations and even "out of body" feelings

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