Insomnia

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Insomnias Effects on Nervous System
Megan Lagapa
Richard Guanzon
Tassa Markman
Tyler V. Schiller
4TH PERIOD BIOLOGY
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What is Insomnia?

• Insomnia not a disease, but a symptom
• The difficulty to fall and/or stay asleep at
  night, or at all
• The person is unable to stay fully awake,
  concentrate or accomplish daily tasks

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WTF does it do to the Nervous System?

• Sleep regeneration of brain and body
• In certain states of rest, neuron regeneration
  happens within cerebral cortex and new memories,
  synaptic connections formed
• Without sleep, neurons might start to malfunction
  gt brain is unable to receive and send new
  messages easily gt body experiences cognitive
  (mental) difficulties

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Symptoms and affected parts of brain

• Insomnia mainly affects central nervous system
• Temporal lobe slurred speech
• Prefrontal lobe Irritability, difficulty
  concentrating and focusing on daily tasks
• Parietal lobe body begins to slow itself down to
  be in a state of rest (ex. falling asleep in
  class)
• Losing 12 straight hours of sleep has same effect
  on the body as one to two alcoholic beverages

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• BIBLIOGRAPHY
• IMAGES
• A Woman Unable to Sleep. Cartoon. Fotosearch.
  2 May 2009 lthttp//www.fotosearch.com/illustratio
  n/insomnia.htmlgt.
• Insomnia." Cartoon. Educational Coloring
  Pictures. 2 May 2009 lthttp//www.edupics.com/en-c
  oloring-pictures-pages-photo- insomnia-i11767.html
  gt.
• "Insomnia Cartoon." Cartoon. The Cartoon Blog. 2
  May 2009 lthttp//www.cartoonchurch.com/blog/categ
  ory/household- hints/gt.
• "Labeled Diagram of Brain." Online Image.
  Wellsphere.  2 May 2009 lthttp//www.wellsphere.co
  m/brain-health-article/brain-teasers- spot-the-dif
  ference/31948gt.
• RESEARCH
• Serendip's Exchange. 2 May 2009
  lthttp//serendip.brynmawr.edu/exchange/node/1690gt
  .
• WebMD. 2 May 2009 lthttp//www.webmd.com/sleep- di
  sorders/insomniagt.