PSYCO104 Lecture Notes - Lecture 20: Continuous Positive Airway Pressure, Pleasant Dreams, Sleepwalking

• School: University of Alberta
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYCO104
• Professor: Eric Legge

Document Summary

Psych 104 lecture #20 consciousness pt. Chronic difficulty in falling or staying asleep or experiencing restful sleep. Overestimate lost sleep or how long to fall asleep (20 mins seems like an hour) Trouble falling asleep (taking more than 30 mins) Wake up during night and can"t go back to sleep. Can lead to addiction or rebound insomnia. Linesta (a sleeping pill: side effects: amnesia, sleepwalking, psychotherapy. Can use both to treat insomnia: narcolepsy. Extreme daytime sleepiness and sudden, uncontrollable sleep attacks (sleeping suddenly from 1 min 1 hour) Experience cataplexy, a sudden loss of muscle tone from laughter, excitement and other strong emotions. Causes due to: genetic factors, brain damage or lack of hormone orexin. Treatment: modafunil: rem sleep behavior disorder (rbd) Results in acting out dream : sleep apnea. Can rouse person who is struggling for breath. Lasts 100 or 1000s of times per night. Cpap machine hooked to person at night: sleepwalking.