睡眠之谜初揭（The mystery of sleep）.doc

睡眠之谜初揭（The mystery of sleep） The mystery of sleep In recent years, the experimental study of sleep related development, especially the research of sleep EEG, which makes people have a new understanding of sleep, to understand the situation in the event of sleep the brain cells to objectively record the sleep depth measurement process, can be. In 1929, German psychiatrist Berger published his findings. He placed electrodes at different parts of the head to detect waves of rhythmic changes, which are electrical phenomena produced by brain cell activity, called brain waves. A systematic description of brain waves and their changing patterns is called electroencephalogram. It is based on the study of sleep EEG that people can really understand the objective process of sleep and divide it into different stages (or periods). Now the study that people dozing when alpha (Al Faber), the change of the frequency of 13 times per second to 8, amplitude is very small, less than 50 microvolts. The first phase of sleep appears to be the mixing of several low amplitude waves, characterized by theta waves. The frequency of theta changes is 4~7 times per second, which is the period of awakening to sleep. In this period, people often are in sleep duration, generally in 0.5 ~ 7 minutes. The second stage is a moderate depth sleep. This period of time has basically fallen asleep, but occasional brief episodes of mental activity can also occur. By the appearance of EEG in spindle wave wave and kappa (card of P). The shuttle wave is actually an automatic amplitude modulation phenomenon of alpha wave, that is, the alpha wave appears in the shape of a matrix, and each array lasts about 0.5 to 2 seconds. At the beginning, the amplitude is very small, the middle amplitude is large, and at last it becomes smaller, Overall spindle shape. The kappa wave is a slow wave with a very large amplitude. This period can make up about 50% of the total sleep time. The third period is the depth of sleep, wit