(a.) Leading to sleep; -- applied to the illusions of one who is half asleep.
Example Sentences:
(1) To evaluate the spatiotemporal changes of EEG during waking-sleeping transition or hypnagogic period, spectral analysis of the five scalp EEG on the midline (Fpz, Fz, Cz, Pz and Oz) referenced to the left ear lobe was carried out on seven young male subjects.
(2) The clinical features include overwhelming episodes of sleep, excessive daytime somnolence, hypnagogic hallucinations, disturbed nocturnal sleep; manifestations of dissociated REM sleep inhibitory process, cataplexy and sleep paralysis; and a special polygraphic pattern: the sleep onset REM episode.
(3) Clinical symptoms include excessive daytime somnolence, overwhelming daytime sleep episodes, attacks of cataplexy, hypnagogic hallucinations, sleep paralysis and disturbed nocturnal sleep; sleep onset REM episodes are the main polygraphic feature.
(4) Our findings--like those of others--suggest that the gradual development of hypnagogic phenomena is bound to a state of lowered vigilance.
(5) The subjective reports of dreams were significantly higher than both placebo and diazepam, indicating an increase in hypnagogic imagery occurring during superficial sleep stages.
(6) The two patients without cataplexy suffered also from sleep paralysis and hypnagogic hallucinations.
(7) Sleep attacks, cataplexy, sleep paralysis and hypnagogic hallucinations are the cardinal signs of narcolepsy.
(8) These regional differences may reflect the termination of hypnagogic effects.
(9) The most characteristic symptoms include uncontrollable excess daytime sleepiness, cataplexy (bilateral voluntary muscle weakness), sleep paralysis, hypnagogic hallucinations and disturbed night-time sleep.
(10) All patients presented with excessive daytime sleepiness, and no significant difference was found between groups for the incidence of cataplexy, hypnagogic hallucinations, and sleep paralysis.
(11) NARCOLEPSY IS A DISORDER OF SLEEP CONTROL CHARACTERIZED BY A TETRAD OF SYMPTOMS: sleep attacks, cataplexy, sleep paralysis and hypnagogic hallucinations.
(12) We studied three patients in a single family (father and two sons), all with long histories of overwhelming daytime sleepiness, hypnagogic hallucinations and sleep paralysis.
(13) In 1932, Salvador Dalí exhibited in Paris his "hypnagogic clock", which he described as "an enormous loaf of bread posed on a luxurious pedestal".
(14) Tracheostomy relieved all his complaints permanently, namely hypersomnia, deteriorated intellectual performance, automatic behaviour with hypnagogic hallucinations and snoring.
(15) This area is the space that is filled at times by scannable hypnopompic geometrical patterns or scannable hypnagogic complex images.
(16) A number of patients experienced an unusual type of post-operative dreamlike state which appeared to be a form of hypnagogic hallucination, and the possible neurophysiological mechanism responsible for this phenomenon is discussed.
(17) Such a state reduces the tone of the skeletal muscles and blocks the thalamo-cortical association system, causing a hypnagogic state incompatible with adaptive and cognitive functions.
(18) Narcolepsy is a potentially invalidating disorder of the sleep and wakefulness structure, characterized by attacks of sleepiness, cataplexy, hypnagogic hallucinations, sleep paralysis and disturbed night sleep.
(19) The study allows a fresh re-elaboration to be raised as regards imagery matureness and formation in the mind, a semiologic re-statement of imagery types, and a better understanding how the self works during sleep stage, dream state, and hypnagogic-hypnopompic phases as well.
(20) A new antodepressant drug, clomipramine hydrochloride, closely related to imipramine hydrochloride, was used to treat four patients suffering from cataplexy, sleep paralysis, and hypnagogic hallucinations.
Somniferous
Definition:
(a.) Causing or inducing sleep; soporific; dormitive; as, a somniferous potion.
Example Sentences:
(1) Introduction of free phenobarbital to such animals does not produce any somniferous effect.