Insomnia
Amount of time Humans approximately spend their lives sleeping
Sleep Apnea
Night Terrors
Average amount of sleep newborns receive
Sleepwalking
This cycle lasts approximately 24.18 hours in humans
Amount of sleep an average 16 year old should receive
Narcolepsy
Biological Clock
Amount of sleep a graduate student should receive
Amount of sleep of people over the age of 70 should receive
Nightmares
8
a sleep disruption that causes screaming, sweating, confusion, and a rapid heart rate
1/3
a common and serious sleep disorder that causes you to stop breathing during sleep
16
10-11
a lifelong disorder of the central nervous system characterized by the brain’s inability to control sleep-wake cycles
walking or carrying out behaviors while asleep
unpleasant dreams
5
the difficulty of falling asleep or staying asleep, even when a person has the chance to do so
Circadian Rhythm
An organism’s innate timing device composed of specific molecules (proteins) that interact in cells throughout the body
