EXSS2022 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Pineal Gland, Lucid Dream, Blood Sugar

• School: University of Sydney
• Department: Exercise and Sport Science
• Course: EXSS2022
• Professor: Chin Moi Chow

Document Summary

Impact of sleep loss on exercise performance, mood, cognition & metabolic. Health: m b a a n c er e c o v e r y. 3: memory consolidation reinforces learning & memory, functional magnetic resonance imaging (fmri) studies using sternberg working memory. Impacts of sleep deprivation on cognition & mood: impaired cognition [affects , reaction speed & motor skills, psychomotor vigilance test (pvt) sustained-attention, reaction-time task, driving skills & operating machines. Irritability, agitation & hallucination: sleepiness & aggression, note: some sleep-deprivation resistant individuals behave differently to the norm (genetics) Impacts of sleep on metabolic function: short sleep linked to metabolic ill health, trends, decrease in average sleep duration. Sleep, post-exercise recovery & performance: lecture 12: factors contributing to sleep loss: Insufficient sleep negatively impacts on health & performance: Impaired cognition: crave sweet/dense foods weight gain & obesity, aggression, decreased sports performance. Increased risk of diabetes & cv diseases: decreased immune response.