Question 1 You must answer this question. Describe the sleep patterns of infants, adults, and elderly people. How do they change over time? Also give the typical nightly cycle of sleep stages in a no

Question 1 

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Describe the sleep patterns of infants, adults, and elderly people. How do they change over time? Also give the typical nightly cycle of sleep stages in a normal adult human.  Don't forget to put in all the stages and the order of them.

Question 2 

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Talk about the idea of biological rhythms and the 2 major categories of these rhythms.  Be sure to include in your ideas the ideas of free-runny, entrainment and zeitgibers.  Give examples of each type of biological rhythm category.

Select from the questions below 2 additional essays and put the answers in Essay 3 area and Essay 4 area.  You will therefore be doing 4 total essays for each essay test.

1. Trace the development of the brain in the first 10 weeks of gestation. Also, discuss the contention that the brain does  continue to develop areas in the living adult?
2. Summarize the brain structures and neurotransmitter systems involved in sleep.
3. Compare sleep patterns across various groups of animals, noting, as appropriate, species differences and the possible evolutionary bases for these differences.
4. Describe the effects of long-term sleep deprivation on human health and performance.
5. Compare and contrast two different types of amnesia caused by disease or damage to the brain.
6. Discuss why patient H.M. demonstrated a recency effect but no primacy effect, and how such evidence provides support for differences between short- and long-term memory.
7. Describe some of the major sleep disorders, their apparent causes, and the currently available treatments.
8. What structure is most involved in long-term potentiation of memory and how is long-term potentiation different from the normal synaptic transmission of most neurons of the body?