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What is sleep?

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Reversible
Behavioral state of
perceptual disengagement from
Unresponsiveness to the environment

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Some features of normal sleep

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  1. Postural recumbency
  2. quiescence
  3. closed eyes
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What defines sleep stages:

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  1. EEG
  2. EOG - electrooculogram
  3. EMG of chin muscle tone (axial muscle tone)
    (4. Polysomnogram - PSG measures respiratory effort, oxygenation, ECG, surface EMG - limbs)
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What are some key neurotransmitters of the waking state?

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  1. Histamine (tuberomamillary nucleus)
  2. NE (locus ceruleus)
  3. Serotonin (Raphe nuclei)
  4. Ach (basal forebrain)
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Features of the waking state

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  1. EEG: Low voltage, high frequency, dominant alpha rhythm
  2. EOG: rapid,blinking
  3. EMG: muscle tone is high
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Features of stage N1 - very light quality sleep or sleep disruption

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  1. EEG: <50% alpha, mostly theta activity
  2. EOG: slow roving eye movement
  3. EMG: Muscle tone is high
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Features of stage N2

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  1. EEG: Vertex K complexes, high voltage negative and positive discharges with spindles (~0.5s)
  2. EOG: Still
  3. EMG: Muscle tone is high
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Features of stage N3

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  1. EEG: Slow wave activity, high voltage, low frequency
  2. EOG: Still
  3. EMG: Muscle tone is LOW
  4. Homeostatic sleep
  5. reduced BP,HR, Cardiac output, RR
  6. GH release
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Features of REM sleep

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  1. EEG: Mixed frequency, low voltage, saw tooth waves
  2. EOG: rapid eye movements
  3. Muscle tone VERY low (paralyzed)
  4. Cholinergic brain state
  5. Irregular respiration, arrthymias, heart rate variation, classical dreaming state
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What is the tonic phase of REM sleep?

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  1. Impaired thermoregulation
  2. hypotension
  3. bradycardia
  4. increased CBF
  5. Increased ICP
  6. increased RR
  7. Erection
  8. ATONIA
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What is the phasic phase of REM sleep?

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  1. Vasoconstriction
  2. Increased BP
  3. Tachycardia
  4. Increases in CBF
  5. Increases in RR
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How is REM sleep generated?

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  1. Pons is a critical structure
  2. REM-on and REM-off cells
  3. Interaction between NE, 5HT, LDTN/PPN
  4. Sublateral dorsal and preceruleus (GABA) interact with vIPAG and LPT REM-off cells (REM flip-flop; Saper Nature)
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What does a hypnogram for rem sleep look like?

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  1. 90 minute cycles
  2. Increasing REM time, decreases SWS
  3. Stage N1 ~5%
  4. Stage N2 ~50%
  5. Stage N3 ~20%
  6. REM ~25%
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What are some features of control of sleep?

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  1. Process S- sleepiness Process C - circadian
  2. orexin/hypocretin project to POST hypothal
  3. sleep onset correlates with activity of VLPO (ant hypoth) - ANTERIOR HYPOTH
  4. Hypnogenic peptides IL-1 - TNF - sick want to sleep
  5. Adenosine increases with time spent awake - improve alertness with caffeine adenosine antagonist
  6. Dim light suppresses melatonin (rises in the evening)
  7. Increase in glymphatic space
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How many hours of sleep do new borns get? How much REM sleep?

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18 hours, 50% REM

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How many hours of sleep do adolescents get?

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10 hours

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How many hours of sleep do adults get?

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7-9 hours but get insufficient amounts

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How many hours do elderly get?

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reduced sleep due to sleep disorders

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What changes in delta sleep ?

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Decreases with age, confounded by definitional problems

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What is sleep onset latency?

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Time from lights out to sleep (~10min)

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What is REM latency?

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Time from sleep onset to REM sleep (~90min)

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What is sleep efficiency?

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Time asleep/Time in bed (~90%)

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What drugs are associated with increases in sleep?

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  1. antihistamines
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How are benzodiazepines associated with sleep?

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  1. benzodiazepines reduce slow wave sleep
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how are antidepressants associated with sleep?
3. Antidepressants (MAO-i, SSRI, TCA) reduce REM, prolong REM latency
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How are SSRIs associated with sleep?
alter muscle tone | produce roving eye movements in light sleep
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How does alcohol alter sleep?
Hastens sleep onset but associates with increased arousal
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What are key markers of circadian rhythms?
1. Temperature 2. REM timing 3. cortisol - rise in the morning whether you sleep or not - sleep doesn't influence this
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How is the nature of circadian vs sleep effects revealed?
By forced descychronization
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How is circadian rhythm controlled?
transplantation of suprachiasmatic nuclei
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What are the SCN afferents for circadian control?
1. retinohypothalamic 2. lateral geniculate 3. Raphe
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What are the SCN Efferents for circadian control?
1. Paraventricular nuclei 2. hypothalamus 3. thalamus 4. dorsomedial hypothal
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What are some clock genes
1. Clock 2. Bmal 3. Per 4. Cry
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There is a strong influence of the SCN on slave organs which are those?
Kidney | Liver
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Sleep apnea more common in..
early morning - worse in REM sleep
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What is apnea
cessation of breathing for 10 seconds
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Hypopnea
Reduced breathin/ariflow 10 seconds
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Obstructive apnea
Airway closed and paradoxical breathing
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Central apnea
No movement of ribcage/abdomen brainstem problem broken neck kink in medulla common in myotonic dystrophy
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how do you distinguish rsetless leg from a neuropathy
- circadian component | - movement component
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What is period limb movement/
Cyclical - predictable Manifests as restless leg (the sensation) 90% of RLS have PLMD 50% of PLMD have RLS
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CAUSES of RLS/PLMD
1. central spasticit - PNS - MS - neurpathy 2. alcohol use 3. pregnancy (iron deficiency - fetus taking iron away)
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Treatment of RLS
- supplement with iron or folate - Dopaminergic AGONIST - Sinemet (augments) - PD disease - only works for 6 months - Clonazepam (tachyphylaxis) - Opoids - exception circumstance
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what is the classis tetrad for narcolepsy
1. excessive day time sleepiness 2. cataplexy - telling a joke then collapsing 3. hypnagogic hallcuinations 4. sleep paralysis go into REM earlu - before 90min Autoimmune BASIS - HLA H1N1 - can be associated with this
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How do you improve alertness in narcoplepsy?
Use amphetamines/alerting agents | - Anticataleptics - Anticholinergics, TCAs, SSRIs, Methylphenidate
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How do Orexin and hypocretin work?
Knock out induces narcolepsy
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Sleep walking would occur
First third of the night
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REM Sleep behavior disorder occurs
LAST THIRD of the night
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