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Human Factors & Aviation Medicine: Overcoming Effects of Stress Offers Greatest Opportunity To Sleep Well
Human Factors & Aviation Medicine: Overcoming Effects of Stress Offers Greatest Opportunity To Sleep Well
SAFETY
F O U N D AT I O N
JulyAugust 1998
During REM sleep, the muscles are paralyzed and the body,
virtually motionless, said Neil B. Kavey, M.D., director of the
Sleep Disorders Center at Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center.
The brain, however, is just as active as it is when you are awake.6
Almost all dreaming occurs during REM sleep.
Sleep Stages
Awake
2
3
Rapid-eye-movement (REM) Sleep
Non-REM Sleep
1
Hours of Sleep
Figure 1
2
Some, though not all, of the pressures for reduced sleep time
are beyond the individuals control for example, shift work,
jobs that require working many hours for weeks at a time or
those that present unpredictable emergencies at any hour. For
people in such situations especially, the development of goodsleep practices is important to maximize the value of sleep time.
Each individual has a basic sleep requirement that provides
for optimal levels of performance and physiological alertness
during wakefulness, said the FSF Fatigue Countermeasures
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References
1. Graber, Richard; with Gouin, Paul, M.D. How to Get
a Good Nights Sleep. Minneapolis, Minnesota, U.S.:
Chronimed Publishing, 1995, p. 23.
2. Maas, James B. Power Sleep. New York, New York, U.S.:
Villard, 1998, p. 22.
3. Graber and Gouin, p. 17.
4. Maas, p. 25 et seq.
5. Maas, p. 27.
6. Kavey, Neil B., M.D. 50 Ways to Sleep Better. New York,
New York, U.S.: Signet Reference, 1996, p. 7.
7. Ford, Norman. The Sleep Rx. Englewood Cliffs, New
Jersey, U.S.: Prentice Hall, 1994, p. 27.
8. Maas, p. 30.
9. Dotto, Lydia. Losing Sleep. New York, New York, U.S.:
William Morrow, 1990, p. 327.
10. Quoted in Dotto, p. 15.
12. Kavey, p. 9.
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