Directory of County Government Offices in Joplin, MO yellow pages. Find Joplin, MO County Government Offices with maps reviews, websites, phone numbers, addresses, and business profiles. Toggle navigation Superpages Online Yellow Pages, Local Business Directory
During the night, you cycle through five separate stages of sleep every 90 to 110 minutes, experiencing between three and five dream periods each night. The five stages of sleep can be distinguished by changes in the electrical activity in your brain, measured by electroencephalogram (EEG).
Polysomnography monitors your sleep stages and cycles to identify if or when your sleep patterns are disrupted and why. The normal process of falling asleep begins with a sleep stage called non-rapid eye movement (NREM) sleep. During this stage, your brain waves, as recorded by electroencephalography (EEG), slow down considerably. Your eyes don't move back and forth rapidly during NREM, in contrast to later stages of sleep. After an hour or two of NREM sleep, your brain activity picks up again, and rapid eye movement (REM) sleep begins. Most dreaming occurs during REM sleep. You normally go through four to six sleep cycles a night, cycling between NREM and REM sleep in about 90 minutes.