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| | Sleep -- Encarta ® Online Deluxe |
 | | When awakened from periods of NREM sleep, subjects are much less likely to report vivid, action-packed dreams. | | | Sleep characterized by little or no eye movement is called nonrapid eye movement (NREM) sleep. | | | This research suggests that the body needs adequate levels of both REM and NREM sleep. |
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http://www.npi.ucla.edu/sleepresearch/encarta/Article.htm
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| | NREM - definition of NREM in Encyclopedia |
| | This is also the most common stage in which parasomnias occur. | | | Unlike REM sleep, there is usually little or no eye movement during this stage. | | | Dreaming is rare during NREM sleep, and the muscles are not paralyzed as in REM sleep. |
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http://encyclopedia.laborlawtalk.com/NREM
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| | Dr. Koop - Night Terrors- Health Encyclopedia and Reference |
| | It is characterized by repeated episodes of abrupt awakening, usually with a panicky scream, and accompanied by intense anxiety, confusion, agitation, disorientation, unresponsiveness, marked motor movements, and total amnesia concerning the event. | | | Sleep terror disorder or "night terrors" is a condition that occurs during stages 3 or 4 of non-rapid eye movement (NREM) sleep. |
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http://www.drkoop.com/encyclopedia/43/341.html
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| | Narcolepsy Network, Inc. - MoreFAQs |
| | Polygraph recordings of sleepy subjects engaged in boring tasks show repeated "microsleeps," which are usually NREM sleep in non-narcoleptic subjects but may include features of REM sleep in narcoleptic patients; these microsleeps are probably partly responsible for automatic behavior. | | | Narcoleptic patients with automatic behavior may have hallucinations during the episodes. | | | Automatic behavior may be difficult to distinguish from automatisms associated with partial complex seizures, absence status, postictal confusion, transient global amnesia, metabolic or drug-induced confusional states, fugue states, or simply daydreaming. |
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http://www.charityadvantage.com/narcolepsynetwork/MoreFAQs.asp
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| | MedlinePlus Medical Encyclopedia: Polysomnogram |
| | REM sleep is associated with dreaming and paralysis of body muscles (except for the eye and diaphragm muscles). | | | There are two states of sleep: non-rapid eye movement (NREM) sleep and rapid eye movement (REM) sleep. | | | REM sleep alternates with NREM sleep approximately every 90 minutes. |
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http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/ency/article/003932.htm
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| | Sleep - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Each stage may have a distinct physiological function. | | | Sleep proceeds in cycles of NREM and REM phases. | | | Non-REM sleep (NREM), accounts for 75-80% of total sleep time: |
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