Rest and Sleep 2
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- Circandian rhythm
- rhythm that completes a full cycle every 24 hours
- Delta Sleep
- Deep sleep
- Dyssomnias
- Sleep disorders characterized by insomnia or excessive sleepiness
- Enuresis
- Involuntary urination
- Hypersomnia
- condition characterized by excessive sleeping; especially daytime sleeping
- Insomnia
- Difficulty in falling asleep, inermittent sleep, or early awakening from sleep
- Narcolepsy
- condition characterized by an uncontrolled desire to sleep
- Nocturnal Myoclonus
- Disorder with marked muscle contractions that results in the jerking of one or both legs during sleep
- NREM
- non-rapid eye movement that characterizes four stages of sleep
- Parasomnias
- patterns of waking behavior that appears during sleep; sleepwalking, sleep talking, nocturnal erections
- REM
- rapid eye movement that characterizes the dream state of sleep
- Rest
- Condition in which the body is in a decreased state of activity, with the consequent feeling of being refreshed.
- Restless leg syndrome
- Patients are unable to lie still and report experiencing upleasant creeping, crawling, or tingling sensations in the legs
- Secondary sleep disorder
- sleep alterations caused by another clinical disorder.
- Sleep
- state of altered consciousness throughout which varying degrees of stimuli produce wakefulness
- Sleep apnea
- period of no breathing during sleep; may last for periods of 10-20 secs to as long as 2 mins
- Sleep Cycle
- Passage through the 4 stages of NREM sleep (I,II,III,IV) then reversal (IV, III,II) and finally, instead of reentering stage I and awakening, entering REM sleep and returning to stage II
- Sleep deprivation
- decreased amount or quality of sleep; irritable, hypersensitive, apathetic, and diminished reflexes
- Somnambulism
- sleep walking