PSYB64H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Adenosine, Night Terror, Restless Legs Syndrome
Document Summary
Sleep and sexual response longer sleep duration was related to greater next-day sexual desire: 1hr increase in sleep length corresponds to 14% increase in engaging in sexual desire. Biological cycles can vary in length: sleep-wakefulness cycle, about 24 hours (our bodies would actually do 25 hrs, the human menstrual cycle, about a month, sad (seasonal affective disorder) circannual. Ultradian = rhythms shorter than 24 hours. Regular bouts of rem sleep: longest rem sleep is when you"re about to wake up. Most deep nrem sleep is early in the sleep period. Ultradian cycles = the regular recurrence in cycles of less than 24 hours. Result from different versions of the genes responsible for our internal clocks. Individual variations in sleep patterns: (cid:498)larks(cid:499) are morning people, (cid:498)owls(cid:499) are night people. Body is asleep, brain is awake: rem gets longer throughout the night light. Variations in sleep patterns: night owls vs larks.
