For most of us, sleep is nothing but a compulsory action that we have to do at least once a day, but for scientists who study it, the mysteries of sleep contribute to a plague of questions with hard to decipher, often inaccessible, answers. Questions such as what function does sleep serve and is there an internal mechanism controlling our sleep are among various possible questions that researchers in the field continue to scrutinize but in this particular paper we will examine the stages of sleep, their physiological differences and a number of the theories behind Rapid Eye Movement (REM) sleep.
January 25, 2010
Mediators and Moderators of Chronic Grief and Resilience in People
Grief is a complex emotion felt by most of us at sometime during our lives, yet there are major individual differences, some appear to be untouched by the loss of a loved one while others become chronically affected to the point where normal day-to-day functioning becomes impossible, while others still experience a delayed onset. Still the question remains; what factors determine the level of grief experienced by a person? The past decades have spawned an immense amount of empirical research and as one would expect with a complicated feeling such as grief, a large number of factors have been proposed in the literature. From the multiple papers examined, all appear to conform to those put forward by James W. Worden.