PSY 1101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Narcolepsy, Night Terror, Sleep Deprivation

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 1101
• Professor: Mark Dallas

Document Summary

If we don"t sleep enough, our pituitary gland stops making hormones (gh, etc. ), we become cranky, increased heart rate, increased sensitivity. Sleep occurs in a repeating 5 stage pattern (1 cycle is 90 minutes: two types of sleep: rem and nrem (non-rem, rem sleep brain waves are most similar to nrem stage 1 waves (very light sleep) Know different stages and difference between types; know there are different types of waves. 2 states of being awake: awake and alert vs awake and drowsy. Modern sleep research began in 1950s, using electroencephalograph (graphic record of brain activity, eeg: today, functions other than brain activity are also monitored (eye movement, muscle movement, br, bp, exhaled co2. Sleep throughout life: just to tease, infants have shorter sleep cycles. 90 minute sleep cycle begins at ~5 y/o: total sleep time decreases as you get older.