PSYCH 133 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Sleep Deprivation, Non-Rapid Eye Movement Sleep, Sepsis
31 Oct 2019
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Real life stories, records, and early studies
Sleep deprivation, body and brain: World Records
Peter Tripp (1959): New York DJ managed stayed awake for 8 days 200hrs in a
wakeathon for charity
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He decided to continue to host his show from his booth in Time Square. He was a normal,
well-to-do guy according to his wife, barber, friends and thousands of devoted radio
listeners indicated.
His record breaking attempted was documented and monitored by doctors.
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By day 4, he started suffering from delusions and hallucination (REM intrusions). He
was seeing spiders in his shoes and began to claim that the staff were trying to poison
him
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At times, his delusions were so severe it was near impossible to test his psychological
functioning.
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He continued to have significant psychosis but did break the record.
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He then slept straight for 22hr and woke up, ordered the papers and apparently was
back to normal
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Note how he lost 8 nights of 8 hr sleep (64hr total) but never slept back all that he
lost
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But… he continued to display behavioral and psychotic problems for year later
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He lost his job, his marriage and he was last heard in the public domain selling books
door-to-door in the Midwest.
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Selective deprivation:
Dement (1960): selectively deprived participant of either NREM or REM sleep over 1
week.
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Results:
The effects of REM sleep deprivation were more severe: increases aggression
and emotionally unstable, and paranoid
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Subjects tried to enter REM sleep 12x the 1st night but this rose to 26x on the
7th night
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When they were free to sleep undisturbed most spend longer than usual in
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Lec 12 Body and Brain
Consequences
Saturday, October 26, 2019
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