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This gating deficit is thought to lead to sensory overload and cognitive fragmentation, and correspondingly many symptoms of the disorder.
Deficits in sensorimotor gating, a function to focus on the most salient stimulus, could lead to a breakdown of cognitive integrity, and could reflect the "flooding" by sensory overload and cognitive fragmentation seen in schizophrenia.
Just as the fragmentation of the world into individuals is necessary to apply the relationship of causality, where A causes B and where A and B are conceived to be two independent objects, this same cognitive fragmentation leads us to conceive of the relationships between people on a model where some person P acts upon person Q, where P and Q are conceived as two independent individuals.
In both cases, psychotic symptoms are thought to arise from a "deficient gating of sensory and cognitive information" in the brain that ultimately lead to "cognitive fragmentation and psychosis".
It is notable that schizophrenia, historically considered to be a disorder of consciousness and characterized by cognitive fragmentation, is associated with abnormal theta and gamma band oscillatory activity during cognitive processing [see 68], [69 for reviews].
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They found no significant association between cognitive impairment and sleep fragmentation measures such as the arousal index, wake after sleep onset (total time spent awake after initially falling asleep), or total sleep time.
However, paradoxically, older adults appear to be more resistant to the cognitive effects of sleep deprivation, restriction, and fragmentation than younger adults.
Persons with schizophrenia may face barriers to high quality primary care due to communication difficulties, cognitive impairment, lack of social support, and fragmentation of healthcare delivery services.
The mechanisms may relate to physical and psychological stresses that accompany complaints of sleep apnea, insomnia, and daytime sleepiness, such as hypoxia, sleep fragmentation, nonrestorative sleep, irritable mood, and problems in cognitive performance.
Given that chronic sleep deprivation and fragmentation considerably increase the risk of mood disorders, lapses in cognitive function, and decreased wellbeing, 8 9 10 11 12 13 effective interventions to improve sleep could improve women's postpartum health.
PD non-motor symptoms include cognitive decline, decrease in sleep efficiency, increased wake after sleep onset, sleep fragmentation, and vivid dreams as well as neuropsychiatric symptoms such as depression and psychosis, [ 18– 23].
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