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sleep Disorder Introduction When a person is observed to be bustling around, he is said to have slept well during the night.... However, if a person is less active during the day, he might be suffering from sleep disorder.... hellip; sleep affects anyone regardless of status in life.... Approximately 10 million people in the United States use prescription for sleep showing that a great number of people suffer from sleep disorder....
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hellip; Although state of sleep and philosophy of unconsciousness has always been a matter of vital interest for the thinkers and philosophers since ever, yet the issue got particular attention of the discipline of philosophy during 17th and 18th centuries.... The paper "Gottfried Leibniz-consciousness and Unconsciousness" looks for discussing with special reference to the contributions made by French philosopher Rene Descartes and eminent eighteenth-century German thinker Gottfried Leibniz while elaborating the same....
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This article focuses on elements of sleep and cognition in regard to the activities of altered states of consciousness.... The author of this essay "Conscious Modulation in Normal sleep" comments on the phenomenon of conscious modulation during sleep.... hellip; To understand the processes that take place during sleep, functional brain imaging techniques are used, allowing the opportunity to compare and contrast conscious and unconscious functions....
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Many conditions contribute to fatigue including the length of time awake, the amount of continuous time doing a task, the lack of sleep and circadian rhythm disruption.... Fatigue is a normal response to many conditions customary to flight procedures because of the sleep loss due to erratic shift work and long duty rotations.... “Sleepiness, according to an emerging consensus among sleep researchers and clinicians, is a basic physiological state (like) hunger or thirst....
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The subject of sleep and dreams is a one about which many myths and misconceptions prevail.... It does so by regulating sleep and arousal by releasing large quantities of a hormone called Melatonin during the night and little or none during the day.... One myth for instance is that everyone needs at least 8 hours of sleep every night to… The truth, however, is that some people get by on an incredible 15-20 minutes of sleep every night while some people may require 11 hours of sleep to maintain good physical and mental health (Huffman)....
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The anaesthetics lead to loss of consciousness to the subject of the surgical experiments.... General anaesthetics agents are given in the form of liquids and gases.... Liquids are… 56).... Many studies have been conducted to explain how anaesthetic agents work, but, the mechanisms behind the whole processes remain unknown....
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In the paper “Lucid Dreaming and consciousness” the author discusses lucid dreaming as the state, in which an individual is deep asleep.... The lucid state may get so deep that the individual might lack the ability to control some of the bodily reactions despite consciousness having a bearing here....
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First, there is the issue of consciousness of the individual as the one causing sleep and death.... The absence of functioning of the physical brain at the time a person is sleeping leads to partial unconsciousness as one awakes after regaining consciousness.... The absence of functioning of the physical brain at the time a person is sleeping leads to partial unconsciousness as one awakes after regaining consciousness.... If in any case death was a form of deep sleep it was possible to regain consciousness after a certain period of time but it never occurs as such....
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