PSY BEH 102C Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Sleep, Sleep Deprivation, Prefrontal Cortex
1 Apr 2017
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25-35% of our lives spent asleep essential to health and functioning. >50% of adults complain at some point of sleep problems impacting their lives. Whitehall ii cohort: decrease in sleep duration. Affects all cause mortality via increase in cardiovascular deaths: increase in sleep duration. Affects overall mortality via increase in non-cardiovascular deaths. National health examination survey: less than 5 hours, more than 9 hours of sleep more likely to have diabetes. Duration: time in bed, total sleep. Continuity: sleep initiation/maintenance, wakenings after sleep onset. Sleep behavioral interventions: to turn of stimulus before sleep.
