NUMEROUS CLINICAL STUDIES AND SLEEP SURVEYS HAVE SHOWN PRONOUNCED SEX DIFFERENCES IN THE OCCURRENCE OF INSOMNIA AND SLEEP pathologies.1-3 Although baseline sleep patterns appear to be fairly similar when healthy men and women are compared under strictly controlled laboratory conditions,4,5 in a real-life setting with all its environmental influences and its complex social context, sleep pattern...

Controversy continues to surround the monosynaptic and polysynaptic spinal reflexes during the different stages of sleep. In animal studies both of these reflexes were found to be depressed during desynchronized sleep. In humans, the H reflex was unchanged whereas the second component of the nociceptive flexion reflex was increased. However, abolition of the H reflex and F waves during REM slee...

According to the most common definition a DNA-bank is a system of a genetic material storage. Applying to nuclear-chemical plant workers, DNA-bank creation is determined by the necessity to preserve a hereditary material of these people and their descendants for the further evaluation of consequences of technogenic factors action on human genome using a contemporary conceptual and applied advan...

What underlies young children’s failure in evaluating underinformative teachers? We explore the hypothesis that children have difficulty representing relevant alternatives; knowing what the teacher could have done. Children rated two teachers who demonstrated toys to a naı̈ve learner. One group first observed a fully informative teacher and then an underinformative teacher, while the other group...