Normal Sleep Physiology and Its Assessment #2 – REMOVE THIS CHAPTER
What every physician needs to know: Sleep is a natural, periodic, and reversible behavioral state of perceptual disengagement from and unresponsiveness to the environment. Defining features of sleep include minimal movement, assumption of a stereotypic posture, reversibility, and reduced response to stimulation. Sleep is essential to life; however, the precise function of sleep remain elusive.…