PSY 4327 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Alarm Clock, Hypersomnia, Shingles

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 4327
• Professor: Suzanne Weld

Document Summary

Neurological reasons: sleeping sickness (gambian trypanosomiasis) - person gets very dopy then they have hyperactivity then get get confused again; a lot of delusional dysfunctional bytes of sleep. In and out on a 10-20 second basis. Treatable that keeps them awake: nocturnal cardiac ischemia - hardening of the muscles of the heart and it hurts and, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease - lung/bronchial problems cause severe insomnia. Dementia: dementia - agitation, delirium, wondrous, vocalising, sun-down syndrome, parkinsonism - most common sleep problem is insomnia; others is that they can"t get in and out of bed easily, can"t move. Meds that are given usually cause more sleep disturbances: fatal familial insomnia - starts with having trouble falling asleep then can"t sleep at all. Total lack of sleep within a few months of onset; always fatal. Ability to fall asleep disappears: sleep-related epilepsy , electrical status epilepticus of sleep (eses) , sleep-related headaches - headaches stripe when you sleep.