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Biological Rhythms, Sleep and Dreaming
Biological Rhythms, Sleep and Dreaming
dreaming
Overview
1. Biological rhythms
2. Architecture of a nights sleep
3. The functions of sleep
4. Neural mechanisms of the sleep-waking cycle
Biological rhythms
Types of rhythms
1. Ultradian (Basic Rest-Activity
Cycle)
2. Circadian (sleep-wake cycles)
3. Infradian (menstrual cycle)
4. Circannual (annual breeding cycles)
Suprachiasmatic
nucleus is master
pacemaker
1. Lesions of suprachiasmatic nucleus abolish freerunning rhythms
2. Activity in suprachiasmatic nucleus correlates
with circadian rhythms
3. Isolated suprachiasmatic nucleus continues to
cycle
4. Transplanted suprachiasmatic nucleus imparts
rhythm of the donor
Nathaniel
Kleitman and the
first sleep lab
Each hemisphere
takes turns sleeping
REM
SWS