PSY 034 Lecture Notes - Lecture 32: Sympathetic Nervous System, Hans Selye, Stress (Biology)

• School: College of The Sequoias
• Department: Psychology (PSY)
• Course: PSY 034
• Professor: Vannasone

Document Summary

Involve disrupted sleep at night and sleepiness during the day that is judged to be due to sleep-related breathing conditions (e. g. , sleep apnea) Nocturnal breathing disturbances: snoring, gasping, or breathing pauses during sleep. Persons whose breathing is interrupted during sleep experience many brief arousals throughout the night. they do not feel rested, even after normal amounts of sleep: daytime sleepiness, fatigue, or unrefreshing sleep despite sufficient opportunities to sleep. Breathing-related sleep disorders: daytime sleepiness, disrupted sleep at night, sleep apnea (apnea, in greek, literally means without breath , restricted air flow. Characterized by disturbed sleep (i. e. , either insomnia or excessive sleepiness or both during the day) due to a mismatch between the sleep-wake schedule required by the person"s environment and their sleep-wake pattern. It is brought on by the brain"s inability to synchronize its sleep patterns with the current patterns of day and night. Circadian rhythms are self-regulated and do not match our 24-hour day clock.