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Sleep and Wakefulness (and Circadian Rhythms)

Sleep and Wakefulness (and Circadian Rhythms). What is Sleep?

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  • Sleep and Wakefulness (and Circadian Rhythms)
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  • What is Sleep?
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  • Minimal Behavioral Activity
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  • A rapidly reversible state of quiescence
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  • Increased Arousal Threshold
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  • Species-Specific Posture Tobler and Stadler, 1988
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  • Measurement of Sleep
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  • Two Types of Sleep Non-rapid eye movement (NREM) sleep Four different stages (1 [lightest] 4 [deepest]) Mixed-frequency EEG low amplitude, high frequency or high amplitude, low frequency Relatively little muscle movements Rapid eye movement (REM) sleep Low-amplitude, high frequency EEG Synchronous eye movements http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AZ6I9N7t7Vc Paralysis Narcolepsy: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nvMyuZKGKAYhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nvMyuZKGKAY
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  • Time Course of Sleep
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  • Ontogeny of Sleep
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  • Neural Control of Sleep
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  • Neural Control of (NREM) Sleep Bottom-Up Processing
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  • Flip-Flop Circuit Cliff Saper, Bob McCarley, Jerome Siegel
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  • Neural Control of (REM) Sleep PGO waves pons-geniculate-occipital areas OR Brainstem-Thalamus-Occipital Cortex
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  • Brain-Spinal Cord Induction of Paralysis During REM sleep
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  • Neural Control of Spindles
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  • Really Cool Probing of Sleep- Regulatory Areas With Optogenetics
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  • Circadian Rhythms
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  • Basic Criteria of Circadian Rhythms Any physiological or behavioral process that oscillates predictably across 24 hrs This rhythm can be shifted by environmental factors (light, drugs, mating) Persist even with the removal of environmental factors (light, seasons)
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  • Some Out-of-Phase Physiological Rhythms
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  • Rhythms in Humans Nathaniel Kleitman and Eugene Aserinsky
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  • Neural (SCN) Control of Rhythms SCN: Suprachiasmatic Nucleus
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  • Beyond the SCN: Molecular Control of Rhythms
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  • Real-Time Recording of Molecular Feedback in the SCN
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  • Working in Tandem Interaction between sleep and circadian brain systems characterized as the two- process model
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  • More Questions? You can stop by for a lab visit