01:830:340 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Excessive Daytime Sleepiness, Sleep Deprivation, Sleep Disorder
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Respiration, oxygen desaturation, leg, eye, heart and brain activity. Daytime behavior: naps, drug/alcohol use, anxiety, interpersonal problems. Sleep efficiency: % of time actually asleep vs. lying in bed. Interferes with: cognitive function, relationships, productivity, and physical health. Deprivation eruption of psychotic symptoms in those vulnerable. 35% of older adults experience excessive daytime sleepiness. Sleep problems increase with age through 64 years, then decrease. Associated with depression, substance use, anxiety, and neurodegenerative disorders due to alzheimer"s. Women: 2x rate more trouble initiating more negative effect. Periodic limb movement: excessive jerky leg movement. Expectations: required sleep varies and is a function of its daytime impact. Excessive sleepiness despite sleeping 7+ hours and. Recurrent periods of sleep or lapses into sleep. Prolonged main sleep episodes of 9+ hours that is nonrestorative. Difficulty being fully awake after abrupt awakening. Little research has been done, but suggests some genetic vulnerability or. Irresitible attacks of refreshing sleep that last over at least three months.
