Penn Teams Up With Penn State
November 10, 2011 at 12:16 pm
Well, while we were off having a bitchfit yesterday about the whole Penn/Penn State mix-up, scientists from both schools were actually putting the 150-mile difference aside, and teaming up to teach us all a little something about sleep paralysis.
Sleep paralysis is a condition in which you feel like you are awake, but you are unable to move. Episodes occur in the stages between wakefulness and sleep and can last just a few seconds or up to several minutes. Some individuals can see and hear things (hallucinations), but they are not able to respond physically to them. [It] may occur only a few times during a person’s life, or as often as every night.The best part of the study is that experts at Penn and Penn State deduced that psychiatric patients and students have a lot in common. It turns out that these two groups are most affected by the condition.