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(” a ‘naturally recurring state’ of ‘mind’ + ‘body’)
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(‘sleep’ is characterized by…)
*’altered consciousness’*
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‘relatively inhibited sensory activity’
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‘inhibition of nearly all ‘voluntary muscles’*, and ‘reduced interactions’ with ‘surroundings’)
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(it is distinguished from ‘wakefulness’ by a ‘decreased ability to react to ‘stimuli”, but is more easily reversed than the state of being ‘comatose’)
(‘sleep’ occurs in ‘repeating periods’, in which the body alternates between 2 distinct modes known as ‘non-REM’ and ‘REM’ sleep)
(although REM stands for “rapid eye movement”, this mode of sleep has many other aspects, including ‘virtual paralysis of the body’)
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(a well-known feature of ‘sleep’ is the ‘dream’, an experience typically recounted in ‘narrative form’, which resembles ‘waking life’ while ‘in progress’, but which usually can later be distinguished as ‘fantasy’)
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(during ‘sleep’, most of the body’s systems are in an ‘anabolic state’, helping to restore (?) the ‘immune’, ‘nervous’, ‘skeletal’, and ‘muscular systems’; these are ‘vital processes’ that maintain ‘mood’, ‘memory’, and ‘cognitive performance’, and play a large role in the function of the ‘endocrine’ and ‘immune’ systems)
(the internal circadian clock promotes sleep daily at night)
(the diverse purposes and mechanisms of sleep are the subject of substantial ongoing research)
(the ‘advent’ of ‘artificial light’ has substantially altered ‘sleep timing’ in ‘industrialized countries’)
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*’humans’ may suffer from various ‘sleep disorders’, including…*
“dyssomnias”
(*examples* –>)
(‘insomnia’ / ‘hypersomnia’ / ‘narcolepsy’ / ‘sleep apnea’)
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“parasomnias”
(*examples* –>)
(‘sleepwalking’ / ‘REM behavior disorder’)
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“bruxism”
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“circadian rhythm sleep disorders”
(‘soft s’ in ‘circadian’)
(not ‘hard c’)
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