Word: sleeps
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...investigated a variety of sleep disorders since it opened in September, but has only been fully funded since April 1. It has managed to operate on a "relatively low budget," explains Stakes, because the lab shares facilities with an electroencephalogram (EEG)--brain wave--laboratory which operates during...
Stakes estimates that 15 percent of the population suffer from sleep disorders of one kind or another. Some of the patients in the lab have been children as young as six, but as a rule, sleep deprivation does not begin the age of 11, when the child starts staying up late, usually to watch television...
McMahon says her favorite type of patient to monitor is the victim of "sleep terror," the "most interesting and scariest" disorder she's seen since she began to train as a technician at Mass General 13 years ago. Such a patient will awaken from non REM (rapid eye movement) of non dream sleep, in terror for no apparent reason...
Other disorders the lab deals with include nocturnal epilepsy (seizures only at night); nocturnal myoclonus (jerking of the legs during sleep) and narcolepsy...
Natcolepsy continual and unpredictable falling asleep during the day is a syndrome diagnosis according to Stakes. That is it can have many different causes, all with the same manifestation. Reasons for it include sleep deprivation, apnea metabolic diseases such as hypothyroidism tumors, and difficulty recovering from strokes...