SOC 2151 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Barbiturate, Constipation, Xerostomia

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 2151
• Professor: Aline A Coutinho

Document Summary

Caffein: increases sol, reduces sws and rems, increases nocturnal awakenings sleep efficiency decreases, increases stage 2 sleep, early morning awakening (caffeine interrupts sleep patterns) Reduces tst by 30 minutes smokers sleep less. Alcohol and sleep (also not good for your sleep) More snoring and apnea symptoms (alcohol relaxes your muscles snorers snore worse when they drink, apnea patients have it worse when they drink) Increase in sws and reduction in rems at the beginning of the night. Overall lighter sleep and rebound in rems at the end of the night. Reduction in overall rems: increase in nocturnal and morning awakenings. Ideal temperature: 29-30 celcius (without sheets or a pyjama) Non ideal temperatures: reduction in the time spent asleep, sleep efficiency significantly reduced reduction in rems, reduction in sleep satisfaction. Effects of medication and sleeping pills: barbiturates: reduction in rems, benzodiazepines: reduction in rems, reserpine, seldomly used as an antipsychotic and antihypertensive drug increase in rems.