Sleep: Normal and Deranged Function

compactifications and function spaces on weighted semigruops

chapter one is devoted to a moderate discussion on preliminaries, according to our requirements. chapter two which is based on our work in (24) is devoted introducting weighted semigroups (s, w), and studying some famous function spaces on them, especially the relations between go (s, w) and other function speces are invesigated. in fact this chapter is a complement to (32). one of the main fea...

Sleep and normal aging

An unexpected cause of deranged liver function: pyogenic liver abscess

An 80-year-old woman was admitted after a collapse without loss of consciousness. The only symptom reported was urinary frequency with recent treatment for a urinary tract infection. Other significant past medical history included choledocholithiasis, for which she had an endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatograph (ERCP) with biliary stenting two years previously. On examination she was apyr...

Variable Normal sleep Shallow

Figure 1. Breakdown of the memory performance for the declarative and implicit tasks. left panel: Subjects having undergone sleep manipulation show a significantly reduced number of true positive responses and an increase in the false negative responses (forgotten items). The absence of differences in the true negative and false positive categories indicates that the memory performance after sh...

Sleep in Normal Aging.

Sleep patterns change with aging, independent of other factors, and include advanced sleep timing, shortened nocturnal sleep duration, increased frequency of daytime naps, increased number of nocturnal awakenings and time spent awake during the night, and decreased slow wave sleep. Most of these changes seem to occur between young and middle adulthood; sleep parameters remain largely unchanged ...