Sleep - Drugs and sleep - Article Index

Encyclopedia - Sleep: Encyclopedia - Sleep
Sleep is the regular state of natural rest observed in all mammals, birds and fish. Sleep is not actually "unconsciousness," but rather, ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Sleep: Encyclopedia Ii - Sleep - Drugs And Sleep
Sleep - Sleep aiding. The pharmacological approach to inducing sleep involves the use of depressant drugs [4], formerly barbiturates, b...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Sleep: Encyclopedia Ii - Sleep - Sleep Physiology
Sleep - Methodology. Before advances in the fields of neurology, neuroscience, electronics and genetics were made, scientists studied t...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Sleep: Encyclopedia Ii - Sleep - Sleep Physiology
Sleep - Methodology. Before advances in the fields of neurology, neuroscience, electronics and genetics were made, scientists studied t...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Sleep: Encyclopedia Ii - Sleep - Sleep Deprivation
A common misperception is that everyone needs eight hours of sleep. The amount of sleep needed is different for each person. This amount ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Sleep: Encyclopedia Ii - Sleep - Sleep Deprivation
A common misperception is that everyone needs eight hours of sleep. The amount of sleep needed is different for each person. This amount ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Sleep: Encyclopedia Ii - Sleep - Sleep Disorders
Disorders of sleep are broadly classified into three groups. Dyssomnias are characterized by difficulty getting to sleep, as in primary i...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Sleep: Encyclopedia Ii - Sleep - Theories Regarding The Function Of Sleep
Restorative theories of sleep describe sleep as a dynamic time of healing and growth for organisms. For example, during stages 3 and 4, o...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Sleep: Encyclopedia Ii - Sleep - Dreaming
The demonstrably necessary phenomenon of dreaming would suffice to prove the importance of sleep to humans, and perhaps to other animals ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Sleep: Encyclopedia Ii - Sleep - Animal Sleep
Animals vary widely in their amounts of sleep, from 2 hours a day for giraffes to 20 hours for bats. Generally, required sleeping time de...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Sleep: Encyclopedia Ii - Sleep - Theories Regarding The Function Of Sleep
Restorative theories of sleep describe sleep as a dynamic time of healing and growth for organisms. For example, during stages 3 and 4, o...   » Read the article