Re: [tips] Great Question about REM

2010-02-24 Thread Gerald Peterson
48710 989-964-4491 peter...@svsu.edu - Original Message - From: roig-rear...@comcast.net To: Teaching in the Psychological Sciences (TIPS) tips@fsulist.frostburg.edu Sent: Wednesday, February 24, 2010 9:58:19 AM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern Subject: Re: [tips] Great Question about REM

Re: [tips] Great Question about REM

2010-02-24 Thread michael sylvester
- Original Message - From: Serafin, John john.sera...@email.stvincent.edu To: Teaching in the Psychological Sciences (TIPS) tips@fsulist.frostburg.edu Sent: Tuesday, February 23, 2010 6:49 PM Subject: Re: [tips] Great Question about REM ...The poster may have

RE: [tips] Great Question about REM

2010-02-24 Thread Shearon, Tim
, 2010 8:03 AM To: Teaching in the Psychological Sciences (TIPS) Subject: Re: [tips] Great Question about REM Could this help explain also why students in lecture classes don't fall out of their chairs when sleeping? Just learning some fascinating things on TIPS ;-) Gary Gerald L. (Gary

RE: [tips] Great Question about REM

2010-02-24 Thread DeVolder Carol L
, Iowa 52803 phone: 563-333-6482 e-mail: devoldercar...@sau.edu -Original Message- From: Shearon, Tim [mailto:tshea...@collegeofidaho.edu] Sent: Wednesday, February 24, 2010 12:32 PM To: Teaching in the Psychological Sciences (TIPS) Subject: RE: [tips] Great Question about REM Gary

RE: [tips] Great Question about REM

2010-02-23 Thread DeVolder Carol L
Motor signals for eye movements are carried via the 3rd, 4th, and 6th cranial nerves and don't pass through the reticular formation. At least I assume that's it. I know I'll be corrected if I'm wrong. Carol Carol DeVolder, Ph.D. Professor of Psychology Chair, Department of Psychology

Re: [tips] Great Question about REM

2010-02-23 Thread roig-reardon
Yes, doesn't sleep-talking occur during REM as well as NonREM sleep? Miguel The paralysis starts at about the neck.  The face, eyes, mouth can all move during REM. m -- Marc Carter, PhD Associate Professor and Chair Department of Psychology College of Arts Sciences Baker

Re: [tips] Great Question about REM

2010-02-23 Thread Michael Smith
I think REM-on cells in the pons and medulla cooperate to produce the rapid eye movement and the loss of skeletal muscle tone respectively (mediated through spinal motor neurons) --Mike On Tue, Feb 23, 2010 at 11:52 AM, roig-rear...@comcast.net wrote: Yes, doesn't sleep-talking occur during

Re: [tips] Great Question about REM

2010-02-23 Thread Serafin, John
Good set of responses to the original question about REM motor inhibition eye movements. Just want to correct one response. Eye movements are not controlled by autonomic systems. The poster may have been thinking about functions like pupil dilation/contraction, which are, in fact, controlled

RE: [tips] Great Question about REM

2010-02-23 Thread DeVolder Carol L
) Subject: Re: [tips] Great Question about REM Good set of responses to the original question about REM motor inhibition eye movements. Just want to correct one response. Eye movements are not controlled by autonomic systems. The poster may have been thinking about functions like pupil dilation

Re: [tips] Great Question about REM

2010-02-23 Thread sblack
Carol DeVolder said, in response to the query concerning why eye movements aren't paralyzed during REM sleep: Motor signals for eye movements are carried via the 3rd, 4th, and 6th cranial nerves and don't pass through the reticular formation. The question reminded me of the historically