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January 14, 2002

Level One: What everyone should know about sleep.

  • True nature of sleep
    - Not less active, but different
    - Instantly blind and deaf
    - Two entirely different organismic states
  • Sleep need, sleep deprivation, sleep debt
  • Biological rhythms and clock dependent alerting
  • Opponent processes in sleep/wake regulation
  • Fatigue, sleepiness, drowsiness
  • Fatal fatigue, alcohol, drowsiness is read alert!
  • Teen sleep, baby sleep, older sleep
  • Getting the sleep we need and how good it feels
  • Symptoms of common sleep disorders


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