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| | Sleep - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | For example, people might only sleep with their immediate family, extended family, spouses, with their children, with children of a certain age, children of specific gender, peers of a certain gender, friends, peers of equal social rank, or with no one at all. | | | Freud postulated that dreams are the symbolic expression of frustrated desires that had been relegated to the subconscious, and used dream interpretation in the form of psychoanalysis he pioneered. | | | REM sleep is predominant in the final third of a sleep period, its timing linked to circadian rhythm and body temperature. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sleep
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| | How Much Sleep Is Enough for My Child? |
| | Sleep - or lack of it - is probably the most-discussed aspect of baby care. | | | Adolescents also experience a change in their sleep patterns in that their bodies want to stay up late and wake up later, which often leads to them trying to catch up on sleep during the weekend. | | | Kids' behaviors can directly reflect their lack of sleep in a way that may not be immediately obvious. |
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http://kidshealth.org/parent/general/sleep/sleep.html
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| | Sleep — Detailed explanations of both basic and medical information pertaining to this nightly activity on ... |
| | Since sleep and wakefulness are influenced by different neurotransmitter signals in the brain, foods and medicines that change the balance of these signals affect whether we feel alert or drowsy and how well we sleep. | | | During sleep, we usually pass through five phases of sleep: stages 1, 2, 3, 4, and REM (rapid eye movement) sleep. | | | We spend almost 50 percent of our total sleep time in stage 2 sleep, about 20 percent in REM sleep, and the remaining 30 percent in the other stages. |
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http://www.medicinenet.com/sleep/article.htm
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| | MedlinePlus Medical Encyclopedia: Sleep apnea |
| | Children with very large adenoids and tonsils may develop obstructive sleep apnea and its associated problems, and should have a tonsillectomy and adenoidectomy. | | | These attempts are accompanied by a change to a lighter stage of sleep. | | | These muscles usually relax during sleep, but the passage remains open enough to permit the flow of air. |
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http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/ency/article/000811.htm
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| | Neuroscience for Kids - Sleep |
| | This also means that sleepwalkers are not in REM sleep and are not acting out their dreams. | | | This theory of sleep suggests that sleep helps the body recover from all the work it did while an animal was awake. | | | SWS sleep is actually 4 different stages of sleep (Stage 1, Stage 2, Stage 3 and Stage 4) with different EEG patterns. |
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http://staff.washington.edu/chudler/sleep.html
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| | THE ENCYCLOPEDIA OF SLEEP AND SLEEP DISORDERS |
| | When their sleep is monitored in the sleep laboratory, they may sleep without interruptions or disruptions. | | | Thorpy reviews the history of sleep from ancient times to the present, covering such topics as sleep in the Bible, and the discovery of the biological clock. | | | Insomniacs may even find the book soothing bedtime reading, as it offers the reassurance that much is known about sleep and that help for poor sleepers is widely available. |
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http://www.sleephomepages.org/books/encyclopedia.html
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| | National Sleep Foundation |
| | Sleep is a vital need, essential to a child's health and growth. | | | The National Sleep Foundation website uses Macromedia Flash content to improve your experience. | | | Assess your sleep with our interactive tools and quizzes |
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http://www.sleepfoundation.org
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| | Deep into Sleep |
| | In addition to both acute and chronic sleep deprivation, interns sleep and wake in patterns that misalign with circadian cycles—being asked, for example, to perform with full alertness at 4 a.m. | | | The division aims to foster collaborative research into sleep, sleep disorders, and circadian biology, to educate physicians and the lay public, to influence public policy, and to set new standards of clinical practice, aiming, as its website (www.hms.harvard.edu/sleep) declares, to create “a model program in sleep and circadian biology.” | | | Such are the prescriptions of sleep researchers, which differ radically from those of the society and the economy. |
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http://www.harvardmagazine.com/on-line/070587.html
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| | How Much Sleep Do I Need? |
| | Sleep helps keep us physically healthy, too, by slowing our body's systems enough to re-energize us after everyday activities. | | | Nicotine is also a stimulant, so quitting smoking may help you sleep better. | | | Slowed responses and concentration from lack of sleep don't just affect school or sports performance, though. |
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http://kidshealth.org/teen/your_body/take_care/how_much_sleep.html
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| | Good sleep, good learning, good life |
| | Free running sleep is a sleep that comes naturally at the time when it is internally triggered by the combination of your homeostatic and circadian components. | | | This article attempts to produce a synthesis of what is known about sleep with a view to practical applications, esp. in people who need top-quality sleep for their learning or creative achievements. | | | The critical function of sleep is dramatically illustrated in experiments in which rats chronically deprived of sleep eventually die (usually within 2.5 weeks). |
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http://www.supermemo.com/articles/sleep.htm
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| | Toddler Sleep Index |
| | • My toddler won't sleep in her crib | | | • Sleep concerns: Moving your toddler to his own bed | | | • My toddler won't sleep when we're away from home |
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http://www.babycenter.com/toddler/toddlersleep/index
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| | Journal SLEEP |
| | Sleep and Aggression in Substance-Abusing Adolescents: Results From an Integrative Behavioral Sleep-Treatment Pilot Program | | | Genioglossal Muscle Response to CO2 Stimulation During NREM Sleep | | | Effect of Continuous Positive Airway Pressure Versus Supplemental Oxygen on Sleep Quality in Obstructive Sleep Apnea: A Placebo-CPAPâ”Controlled Study |
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| | Sleepnet.com Homepage |
| | If you suspect that you have a sleep disorder you should seek care from a qualified professional. | | | This is an educational site devoted to improving sleep health worldwide | | | Sleepnet.com does not endorse any products or services, including those mentioned in the sleep forums or presented in Google Ads. |
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http://www.sleepnet.com
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| | Sleep News |
| | It's a story that may shock some parents, but as children grow into adolescents, they need more rest. | | | Sleepless in America: It's the story of our lives | | | Sleep apnea is a condition characterized by brief periods of breathing cessation during sleep. |
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http://www.topix.net/health/sleep
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| | Howstuffworks "How Sleep Works" |
| | In this article, you'll find out all about sleep and what it does for you. | | | And what about the crazy dreams, like the one where a bad person is chasing you and you can't run or yell. | | | Sleep is one of those funny things about being a human being -- you just have to do it. |
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| | Sleep for Science |
| | The Encyclopedia of Sleep and Dreaming involved many of the leaders in the field of sleep research writing brief articles on a spectrum of topics in the areas of sleep and dreaming. | | | The Encyclopedia of Sleep and Dreaming, MacMillan Publishing Co., New York, 1993. | | | This one-volume English-language book was written at the level of advanced high school students and is intended for use as a library reference book. |
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http://www.sleepforscience.org/contentmgr/showdetails.php/id/214
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| | Sleep - Java Scripting Language |
| | Since then Sleep has been developed in parallel with the Java IRC Client, jIRCii. | | | The Sleep Java API allows the language to be extended with new constructs, operators, functions, and variable containers. | | | Sleep is heavily inspired by Perl with bits of Objective-C thrown in. |
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http://sleep.hick.org
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| | Sleep Center - MayoClinic.com |
| | Mayo Clinic geriatrician Paul Takahashi, M.D., and colleagues answer select questions from readers. | | | Find information on better sleep and sleep disorders, such as sleep apnea and insomnia. | | | Get better sleep and explore sleep disorders, such as insomnia and snoring. |
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http://www.mayoclinic.com/health/sleep/SL99999
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| | Sleep disorders in the elderly |
| | You should promptly seek professional medical care if you have any concern about your health, and you should always consult your physician before starting a fitness regimen. | | | Sleep disorders in the elderly involve any disruptive pattern of sleep such as problems with falling or staying asleep, excessive sleep, or abnormal behaviors associated with sleep. | | | In general, older people require less sleep, and their sleep is less deep than that experienced by the young. |
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http://drdean.healthcentral.com/mhc/top/000064.cfm
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| | FREE Internet Encyclopedia - MacroReference |
| | Outdated - Drugs and Insomnia: the Use of Medications to Promote Sleep. | | | The Treatment of Sleep Disorders of Older People | | | Changes and sleep pathology in the elderly - Sanford H. Auerbach MD |
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http://www2.cs.uh.edu/~clifton/macro.s.html
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| | Sleep by Andy Warhol |
| | Seeing everybody so up all the time made me think that sleep was becoming pretty obsolete, so I decided I'd better quickly do a movie of a person sleeping. | | | According to Gerard Malanga, Warhol had mentioned to him an idea for making a film of Brigitte Bardot sleeping for eight hours before Warhol actually owned a movie camera. | | | This was partially due to the limitiations of his Bolex movie camera which could only shoot 4-minute lengths of film. |
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http://www.warholstars.org/filmch/sleep.html
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