This document discusses circadian rhythms, which are biological processes that repeat approximately every 24 hours. Examples include the sleep-wake cycle, body temperature fluctuations, and hormone levels such as cortisol. Studies on animals and humans in controlled environments show that circadian rhythms are endogenously generated but can be adjusted by external cues like light levels. Disruptions to circadian rhythms, as in jet lag or shift work, can impair performance and health. The stages of sleep are also described, from light sleep to deep sleep and REM sleep. Age affects sleep cycles and quality. Insomnia and narcolepsy are discussed as disorders of sleep amount and timing.
The Beck Depression Inventory (BDI-II) is a 21-item self-report inventory that measures the existence and severity of symptoms of depression. It takes 5-10 minutes to administer and provides a score that can indicate minimal, mild, moderate, or severe depression. While widely used, it has limitations such as being subject to exaggeration or minimization by clients and lacks representation of diverse populations in its standardization.
This document provides an overview of sleep, including its definition, stages, neurobiology, and relevance to psychiatry. It describes the two main types of sleep - REM and NREM sleep - and the different stages of NREM sleep. The neurobiology of sleep and wakefulness involves separate but interacting systems in the brainstem, hypothalamus, and basal forebrain. Key structures and neurotransmitters that promote wakefulness include the ascending reticular activating system, locus ceruleus, tuberomamillary nucleus, pedunculopontine tegmental nucleus, and hypocretin. Age and circadian rhythms also influence sleep patterns.
This document discusses novel neurotransmitters beyond the classical ones. It describes nitric oxide, carbon monoxide, hydrogen sulfide, endocannabinoids, eicosanoids, and neurosteroids. Nitric oxide is produced in neurons from arginine and acts through cGMP. It is involved in long term potentiation and erectile function. Carbon monoxide regulates olfaction and vasodilation. Hydrogen sulfide is produced from cysteine and acts as a gaseous messenger. Endocannabinoids like anandamide signal retrogradely through CB1 receptors. Eicosanoids are derived from arachidonic acid. Neurosteroids are synthesized in the brain from cholesterol and include allopregn
This document discusses intelligence, IQ, IQ tests, and methods for estimating pre-morbid IQ. It defines intelligence and outlines several theories of intelligence. It explains what IQ is and how IQ tests work. It also discusses major IQ tests like the Wechsler scales and Stanford-Binet. The document outlines various methods for estimating an individual's intellectual abilities before any brain damage or disease onset, including using preserved abilities, historical records, and comparing pre-and post-injury test performance.
The Bender-Gestalt Test is used to assess visual motor maturity, screen for developmental disorders, and evaluate neurological damage. It examines perceptual motor skills and neurological functioning. During the test, patients copy and recall 9 figures over 10 minutes to evaluate their visual maturity, visual motor skills, ability to correct mistakes, and planning organization. Scoring looks at errors like omitting or distorting angles, closing figures improperly, disproportionate sizes, overlapping lines, and substituting simpler designs. The results provide insight into a patient's visual processing, motor skills, and neurological integrity.
The temporal lobe is involved in processing sensory input, memory formation, language comprehension, and emotional processing. It contains structures like the hippocampus and amygdala that are important for memory and emotional associations. Disorders of the temporal lobe can cause problems like epilepsy, memory deficits, language issues like aphasia, and behavioral changes. Temporal lobe epilepsy is a common type of seizure originating in structures of the anteromedial temporal lobe. Bilateral damage to the amygdala and inferior temporal cortex can cause Klüver-Bucy syndrome characterized by changes in behavior and cognition. The temporal lobe also plays a key role in conditions like Alzheimer's disease, frontotemporal dementia, and traumatic brain injury.
Sytematic treatment enhancement program for bipolar disorder(step bd) (1)Dr Wasim
The STEP-BD study was a large, long-term outpatient study that evaluated treatments for bipolar disorder. Over 7 years it enrolled 4,361 participants ages 15 and older from 22 sites to evaluate which treatments were most effective for episodes of depression and mania and for preventing recurrence. The study assessed mood stabilizers, antidepressants, antipsychotics, and psychosocial interventions. It found that certain medications were not more effective than placebo for acute depression. Intensive psychosocial therapies improved relationship and life satisfaction compared to a brief control intervention. The study provided important longitudinal data on the course and comorbidities of bipolar disorder.
The Beck Depression Inventory (BDI-II) is a 21-item self-report inventory that measures the existence and severity of symptoms of depression. It takes 5-10 minutes to administer and provides a score that can indicate minimal, mild, moderate, or severe depression. While widely used, it has limitations such as being subject to exaggeration or minimization by clients and lacks representation of diverse populations in its standardization.
This document provides an overview of sleep, including its definition, stages, neurobiology, and relevance to psychiatry. It describes the two main types of sleep - REM and NREM sleep - and the different stages of NREM sleep. The neurobiology of sleep and wakefulness involves separate but interacting systems in the brainstem, hypothalamus, and basal forebrain. Key structures and neurotransmitters that promote wakefulness include the ascending reticular activating system, locus ceruleus, tuberomamillary nucleus, pedunculopontine tegmental nucleus, and hypocretin. Age and circadian rhythms also influence sleep patterns.
This document discusses novel neurotransmitters beyond the classical ones. It describes nitric oxide, carbon monoxide, hydrogen sulfide, endocannabinoids, eicosanoids, and neurosteroids. Nitric oxide is produced in neurons from arginine and acts through cGMP. It is involved in long term potentiation and erectile function. Carbon monoxide regulates olfaction and vasodilation. Hydrogen sulfide is produced from cysteine and acts as a gaseous messenger. Endocannabinoids like anandamide signal retrogradely through CB1 receptors. Eicosanoids are derived from arachidonic acid. Neurosteroids are synthesized in the brain from cholesterol and include allopregn
This document discusses intelligence, IQ, IQ tests, and methods for estimating pre-morbid IQ. It defines intelligence and outlines several theories of intelligence. It explains what IQ is and how IQ tests work. It also discusses major IQ tests like the Wechsler scales and Stanford-Binet. The document outlines various methods for estimating an individual's intellectual abilities before any brain damage or disease onset, including using preserved abilities, historical records, and comparing pre-and post-injury test performance.
The Bender-Gestalt Test is used to assess visual motor maturity, screen for developmental disorders, and evaluate neurological damage. It examines perceptual motor skills and neurological functioning. During the test, patients copy and recall 9 figures over 10 minutes to evaluate their visual maturity, visual motor skills, ability to correct mistakes, and planning organization. Scoring looks at errors like omitting or distorting angles, closing figures improperly, disproportionate sizes, overlapping lines, and substituting simpler designs. The results provide insight into a patient's visual processing, motor skills, and neurological integrity.
The temporal lobe is involved in processing sensory input, memory formation, language comprehension, and emotional processing. It contains structures like the hippocampus and amygdala that are important for memory and emotional associations. Disorders of the temporal lobe can cause problems like epilepsy, memory deficits, language issues like aphasia, and behavioral changes. Temporal lobe epilepsy is a common type of seizure originating in structures of the anteromedial temporal lobe. Bilateral damage to the amygdala and inferior temporal cortex can cause Klüver-Bucy syndrome characterized by changes in behavior and cognition. The temporal lobe also plays a key role in conditions like Alzheimer's disease, frontotemporal dementia, and traumatic brain injury.
Sytematic treatment enhancement program for bipolar disorder(step bd) (1)Dr Wasim
The STEP-BD study was a large, long-term outpatient study that evaluated treatments for bipolar disorder. Over 7 years it enrolled 4,361 participants ages 15 and older from 22 sites to evaluate which treatments were most effective for episodes of depression and mania and for preventing recurrence. The study assessed mood stabilizers, antidepressants, antipsychotics, and psychosocial interventions. It found that certain medications were not more effective than placebo for acute depression. Intensive psychosocial therapies improved relationship and life satisfaction compared to a brief control intervention. The study provided important longitudinal data on the course and comorbidities of bipolar disorder.
The Bender Gestalt Test (BGT) is a screening tool developed in 1938 to assess visual-motor and visuoconstructive abilities. It involves copying simple line drawings and is used to evaluate neurological and developmental deficits. The test demonstrates good reliability, with interscorer reliability for errors ranging from .87 to .90. Validity is also good as an indicator of perceptual-motor development, with error scores decreasing with age. While brief, economical, and flexible to administer, the BGT provides only limited information about specific brain damage and lacks a universally accepted scoring system.
Cerebellum its function and releveance in psychiatryHarsh shaH
The cerebellum receives inputs from many brain regions and is involved in motor control and coordination. Recent research also suggests it plays a role in cognition and certain psychiatric disorders. Studies have found cerebellar abnormalities such as reduced volume and blood flow in autism, schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, depression, and anxiety disorders which may contribute to symptoms. Cerebellar lesions can cause motor signs as well as cognitive and psychiatric issues, referred to as cerebellar-cognitive affective syndrome.
Antipsychiatry Movement arose as a zeitgeist of the 1960s anti-establishment movements. It has in a way contributed to the development of psychiatry by pointing out its short comings.
Neuropsychological assessment examines cognitive functioning through performance-based testing to determine the effects of brain injury or illness. It assesses areas like memory, intelligence, language, and executive function. The goals are diagnosis of any cognitive problems, understanding the nature and impact of any issues, and measuring change over time such as after treatment. Tests evaluate multiple areas to identify patterns that can indicate neurological disorders. The process involves taking a medical history, interviews, and standardized testing which are compared to norms.
Neurodevelopmental disorders are impairments of brain or central nervous system growth and development that affect emotion, learning, self-control, and memory. They can be caused by factors like genetic disorders, infections, trauma, or nutritional deficiencies. Common neurodevelopmental disorders include intellectual disabilities, autism spectrum disorders, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, fetal alcohol spectrum disorder, and motor or communication disorders. The document outlines diagnostic guidelines for neurodevelopmental disorders and provides definitions for conditions like dementia, schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, and depression.
Cognitive psychology is the study of how people think. This chapter outlines the history of cognitive psychology from its philosophical roots in Plato and Aristotle through approaches like structuralism, functionalism, behaviorism, and Gestalt psychology. It describes the emergence of cognitive psychology due to challenges to behaviorism from researchers like Chomsky and Turing. The chapter then discusses common research methods in cognitive psychology like experiments, neuroimaging, self-reports, and computer modeling before concluding with key themes such as the interaction of cognitive processes and the need for diverse research methods.
This document discusses the anatomy and functional areas of the frontal lobe and their relation to psychiatry. It begins with the anatomical structures of the frontal lobe including the lateral, medial and orbital surfaces. It then covers the primary functional areas - primary motor cortex, premotor cortex, supplementary motor cortex, frontal eye fields, Broca's area, and the prefrontal cortex including dorsolateral, dorsomedial and orbital regions. Neuropsychiatric disorders are discussed like frontal lobe syndrome, traumatic brain injury, frontotemporal dementia, and the relationships between the frontal lobe and conditions like schizophrenia, depression, ADHD, OCD, and alcohol use. Assessment techniques are also covered.
The document discusses the basal ganglia and their role in various psychiatric disorders. It begins with an overview of the basal ganglia's neuroanatomy and physiology, describing their connections and pathways. It then examines the basal ganglia's involvement in several disorders like OCD, autism, ADHD, schizophrenia, and depression. Imaging studies have found abnormalities in basal ganglia structures in these conditions. Dysfunctions in cortico-basal ganglia loops are believed to underlie repetitive behaviors and thoughts in OCD and autism. Dopamine anomalies in the basal ganglia are also implicated in schizophrenia pathology.
The document discusses the clinical interview, which is a major tool used by clinical psychologists to gather data and make decisions. It defines the clinical interview and describes its importance. Several types of interviews are covered, including intake interviews to understand a patient's symptoms, case history interviews to obtain background information, mental status examinations to assess psychological functioning, crisis interviews for emergency situations, diagnostic interviews to determine appropriate treatment, and structured interviews with standardized questions. The document also addresses reliability and validity considerations for clinical interviews.
Clinical neuropsychology examines the relationship between brain functioning and behavior in domains like cognition, motor skills, senses, and emotions. Neuropsychological assessment purposes include identifying brain lesions, diagnosing conditions, determining strengths and weaknesses, making rehabilitation recommendations, and predicting prognosis. Assessments evaluate domains such as attention, memory, language, processing speed, and more using standardized tests. Performance in these domains can indicate damage to left or right brain hemispheres. Neuropsychological assessment batteries systematically evaluate cognitive functioning.
- Existentialism focuses on finding meaning and purpose in life, and emphasizes that people must make choices about their life while knowing they are mortal. It was started by Soren Kierkegaard and focuses on existence preceding essence.
- Existential psychology views people as responsible for their own existence and emphasizes authentic experience over objective states of being. Education in this view should help students develop themselves and their capacities through free choice and problem solving.
- There are stages of existential development from innocence to rebellion to becoming an authentic, creative adult who faces life's anxieties with courage. Existentialism differs from humanism in its view of inherent human qualities.
The document discusses neurobiology of memory, including:
1. It describes the anatomical and functional organization of memory, focusing on the hippocampus formation, its afferents and efferents, and its role in learning and memory.
2. It discusses the different types of memory including explicit and implicit memory, and the cellular and molecular processes underlying short-term and long-term memory formation.
3. It explains mechanisms of memory formation and consolidation at the synaptic level, including the roles of proteins like CaMKII and CREB.
The MMPI-3 is the latest version of the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory, released in 2020. It consists of 335 true-false items and takes 25-50 minutes to complete. The MMPI-3 features updated items, scales, and norms. It assesses personality and psychopathology through validity scales, higher-order scales, restructured clinical scales, specific problem scales, interpersonal scales, and PSY-5 scales. The MMPI-3 provides a contemporary assessment tool for clinical, medical, forensic, and public safety settings.
The document provides information about the frontal lobe:
1. It introduces the frontal lobe as the emotional control center and personality center that is prone to injury.
2. It describes the anatomy of the frontal lobe including lobes, gyri, sulci and blood supply on different surfaces.
3. It outlines some of the major functional areas of the frontal lobe including motor control, language, decision making, memory, and social behavior.
This document summarizes Indian research on schizophrenia conducted from the 1960s to the 2010s. It outlines key areas of research including epidemiology, biological studies, treatment studies, and investigations of symptoms, course, and outcomes. Some landmark studies mentioned are the International Pilot Study of Schizophrenia, Determinants of Outcome of Severe Mental Disorders study, International Study of Schizophrenia, and long-term follow up studies of cohorts in Agra and Madras that found illness intensity decreases over time and outcomes are better than in developed countries.
Associationism is one of the oldest perspectives in psychology that suggests mental processes operate through the association of mental states. A major idea of associationism is that complex ideas form from the association of simpler ideas. The British empiricists like Hobbes, Locke, Berkeley, and Hume used associationistic principles to explain mental activity. Hume differentiated impressions and ideas and proposed three laws of association: resemblance, contiguity, and cause and effect. Associationism influenced many learning theories and continues to be relevant today.
Psychological models of depression include psychodynamic, interpersonal, behavioral, and cognitive theories. Psychodynamic theories view depression as resulting from unresolved conflicts around loss, impaired self-esteem, and inadequate early caregivers. Interpersonal theories link mood to disruptions in relationships and social support. Behavioral theories explain depression as learned through reinforcement and social interactions. Cognitive theories emphasize negative thought patterns and schemas involving negative views of self, world, and future as central to depression.
Rollo May was an American psychologist who helped develop existential psychology. Some key aspects of May's work include:
- He combined existentialist philosophy with psychoanalytic traditions to explain his view of psychology.
- May believed that anxiety, feelings of threat and powerlessness are essential to human growth and development as they give people the freedom to act courageously.
- He outlined four stages of consciousness of self: innocence, rebellion, ordinary consciousness, and creative consciousness.
- May emphasized the importance of integrating motives called "daimons" and balancing love and will.
- He criticized views of love and sex that had become separated in society during the 1960s sexual revolution.
- May's last book focused
MMPI is a personality inventory used in the assessment of personality. It is also used as a psychometric test as well as a diagnostic tool by clinical psychologists and counselors. Developed by Hathway & McKinley in the year 1943. It is the second most widely used personality inventory.
All behavior patterns are co-ordinated sequences of neuromuscular activity. A rhythm is a periodically recurring event.
chronobiology is the study of science of life in relation with time.
The majority of organisms show daily and annual cycles of activity and development.
Circadian rhythms are biological processes that display an endogenous cycle of approximately 24 hours. They are influenced by external cues like light and regulated by the brain's circadian pacemaker. Common circadian rhythms include the sleep-wake cycle and fluctuations in body temperature and hormone levels. Disruptions to circadian rhythms can result in circadian rhythm disorders like delayed sleep phase syndrome or jet lag. Nurses play a role in assessing patients' circadian rhythms, providing sleep hygiene advice, and referring patients to specialists when needed.
The Bender Gestalt Test (BGT) is a screening tool developed in 1938 to assess visual-motor and visuoconstructive abilities. It involves copying simple line drawings and is used to evaluate neurological and developmental deficits. The test demonstrates good reliability, with interscorer reliability for errors ranging from .87 to .90. Validity is also good as an indicator of perceptual-motor development, with error scores decreasing with age. While brief, economical, and flexible to administer, the BGT provides only limited information about specific brain damage and lacks a universally accepted scoring system.
Cerebellum its function and releveance in psychiatryHarsh shaH
The cerebellum receives inputs from many brain regions and is involved in motor control and coordination. Recent research also suggests it plays a role in cognition and certain psychiatric disorders. Studies have found cerebellar abnormalities such as reduced volume and blood flow in autism, schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, depression, and anxiety disorders which may contribute to symptoms. Cerebellar lesions can cause motor signs as well as cognitive and psychiatric issues, referred to as cerebellar-cognitive affective syndrome.
Antipsychiatry Movement arose as a zeitgeist of the 1960s anti-establishment movements. It has in a way contributed to the development of psychiatry by pointing out its short comings.
Neuropsychological assessment examines cognitive functioning through performance-based testing to determine the effects of brain injury or illness. It assesses areas like memory, intelligence, language, and executive function. The goals are diagnosis of any cognitive problems, understanding the nature and impact of any issues, and measuring change over time such as after treatment. Tests evaluate multiple areas to identify patterns that can indicate neurological disorders. The process involves taking a medical history, interviews, and standardized testing which are compared to norms.
Neurodevelopmental disorders are impairments of brain or central nervous system growth and development that affect emotion, learning, self-control, and memory. They can be caused by factors like genetic disorders, infections, trauma, or nutritional deficiencies. Common neurodevelopmental disorders include intellectual disabilities, autism spectrum disorders, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, fetal alcohol spectrum disorder, and motor or communication disorders. The document outlines diagnostic guidelines for neurodevelopmental disorders and provides definitions for conditions like dementia, schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, and depression.
Cognitive psychology is the study of how people think. This chapter outlines the history of cognitive psychology from its philosophical roots in Plato and Aristotle through approaches like structuralism, functionalism, behaviorism, and Gestalt psychology. It describes the emergence of cognitive psychology due to challenges to behaviorism from researchers like Chomsky and Turing. The chapter then discusses common research methods in cognitive psychology like experiments, neuroimaging, self-reports, and computer modeling before concluding with key themes such as the interaction of cognitive processes and the need for diverse research methods.
This document discusses the anatomy and functional areas of the frontal lobe and their relation to psychiatry. It begins with the anatomical structures of the frontal lobe including the lateral, medial and orbital surfaces. It then covers the primary functional areas - primary motor cortex, premotor cortex, supplementary motor cortex, frontal eye fields, Broca's area, and the prefrontal cortex including dorsolateral, dorsomedial and orbital regions. Neuropsychiatric disorders are discussed like frontal lobe syndrome, traumatic brain injury, frontotemporal dementia, and the relationships between the frontal lobe and conditions like schizophrenia, depression, ADHD, OCD, and alcohol use. Assessment techniques are also covered.
The document discusses the basal ganglia and their role in various psychiatric disorders. It begins with an overview of the basal ganglia's neuroanatomy and physiology, describing their connections and pathways. It then examines the basal ganglia's involvement in several disorders like OCD, autism, ADHD, schizophrenia, and depression. Imaging studies have found abnormalities in basal ganglia structures in these conditions. Dysfunctions in cortico-basal ganglia loops are believed to underlie repetitive behaviors and thoughts in OCD and autism. Dopamine anomalies in the basal ganglia are also implicated in schizophrenia pathology.
The document discusses the clinical interview, which is a major tool used by clinical psychologists to gather data and make decisions. It defines the clinical interview and describes its importance. Several types of interviews are covered, including intake interviews to understand a patient's symptoms, case history interviews to obtain background information, mental status examinations to assess psychological functioning, crisis interviews for emergency situations, diagnostic interviews to determine appropriate treatment, and structured interviews with standardized questions. The document also addresses reliability and validity considerations for clinical interviews.
Clinical neuropsychology examines the relationship between brain functioning and behavior in domains like cognition, motor skills, senses, and emotions. Neuropsychological assessment purposes include identifying brain lesions, diagnosing conditions, determining strengths and weaknesses, making rehabilitation recommendations, and predicting prognosis. Assessments evaluate domains such as attention, memory, language, processing speed, and more using standardized tests. Performance in these domains can indicate damage to left or right brain hemispheres. Neuropsychological assessment batteries systematically evaluate cognitive functioning.
- Existentialism focuses on finding meaning and purpose in life, and emphasizes that people must make choices about their life while knowing they are mortal. It was started by Soren Kierkegaard and focuses on existence preceding essence.
- Existential psychology views people as responsible for their own existence and emphasizes authentic experience over objective states of being. Education in this view should help students develop themselves and their capacities through free choice and problem solving.
- There are stages of existential development from innocence to rebellion to becoming an authentic, creative adult who faces life's anxieties with courage. Existentialism differs from humanism in its view of inherent human qualities.
The document discusses neurobiology of memory, including:
1. It describes the anatomical and functional organization of memory, focusing on the hippocampus formation, its afferents and efferents, and its role in learning and memory.
2. It discusses the different types of memory including explicit and implicit memory, and the cellular and molecular processes underlying short-term and long-term memory formation.
3. It explains mechanisms of memory formation and consolidation at the synaptic level, including the roles of proteins like CaMKII and CREB.
The MMPI-3 is the latest version of the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory, released in 2020. It consists of 335 true-false items and takes 25-50 minutes to complete. The MMPI-3 features updated items, scales, and norms. It assesses personality and psychopathology through validity scales, higher-order scales, restructured clinical scales, specific problem scales, interpersonal scales, and PSY-5 scales. The MMPI-3 provides a contemporary assessment tool for clinical, medical, forensic, and public safety settings.
The document provides information about the frontal lobe:
1. It introduces the frontal lobe as the emotional control center and personality center that is prone to injury.
2. It describes the anatomy of the frontal lobe including lobes, gyri, sulci and blood supply on different surfaces.
3. It outlines some of the major functional areas of the frontal lobe including motor control, language, decision making, memory, and social behavior.
This document summarizes Indian research on schizophrenia conducted from the 1960s to the 2010s. It outlines key areas of research including epidemiology, biological studies, treatment studies, and investigations of symptoms, course, and outcomes. Some landmark studies mentioned are the International Pilot Study of Schizophrenia, Determinants of Outcome of Severe Mental Disorders study, International Study of Schizophrenia, and long-term follow up studies of cohorts in Agra and Madras that found illness intensity decreases over time and outcomes are better than in developed countries.
Associationism is one of the oldest perspectives in psychology that suggests mental processes operate through the association of mental states. A major idea of associationism is that complex ideas form from the association of simpler ideas. The British empiricists like Hobbes, Locke, Berkeley, and Hume used associationistic principles to explain mental activity. Hume differentiated impressions and ideas and proposed three laws of association: resemblance, contiguity, and cause and effect. Associationism influenced many learning theories and continues to be relevant today.
Psychological models of depression include psychodynamic, interpersonal, behavioral, and cognitive theories. Psychodynamic theories view depression as resulting from unresolved conflicts around loss, impaired self-esteem, and inadequate early caregivers. Interpersonal theories link mood to disruptions in relationships and social support. Behavioral theories explain depression as learned through reinforcement and social interactions. Cognitive theories emphasize negative thought patterns and schemas involving negative views of self, world, and future as central to depression.
Rollo May was an American psychologist who helped develop existential psychology. Some key aspects of May's work include:
- He combined existentialist philosophy with psychoanalytic traditions to explain his view of psychology.
- May believed that anxiety, feelings of threat and powerlessness are essential to human growth and development as they give people the freedom to act courageously.
- He outlined four stages of consciousness of self: innocence, rebellion, ordinary consciousness, and creative consciousness.
- May emphasized the importance of integrating motives called "daimons" and balancing love and will.
- He criticized views of love and sex that had become separated in society during the 1960s sexual revolution.
- May's last book focused
MMPI is a personality inventory used in the assessment of personality. It is also used as a psychometric test as well as a diagnostic tool by clinical psychologists and counselors. Developed by Hathway & McKinley in the year 1943. It is the second most widely used personality inventory.
All behavior patterns are co-ordinated sequences of neuromuscular activity. A rhythm is a periodically recurring event.
chronobiology is the study of science of life in relation with time.
The majority of organisms show daily and annual cycles of activity and development.
Circadian rhythms are biological processes that display an endogenous cycle of approximately 24 hours. They are influenced by external cues like light and regulated by the brain's circadian pacemaker. Common circadian rhythms include the sleep-wake cycle and fluctuations in body temperature and hormone levels. Disruptions to circadian rhythms can result in circadian rhythm disorders like delayed sleep phase syndrome or jet lag. Nurses play a role in assessing patients' circadian rhythms, providing sleep hygiene advice, and referring patients to specialists when needed.
The document discusses the biological clock and circadian rhythms in humans. It begins by posing questions about increased risks of heart attacks in the morning and car crashes in the afternoon, which are related to our biological clocks. It then discusses evidence from experiments that show our bodies operate on regular daily routines, regulated by biological clocks in every cell. These clocks are influenced by light exposure and can differ slightly between individuals, but generally follow a 24 hour cycle. The document goes on to describe how our biological clocks impact functions from waking and sleeping to performance at different times of day. It also discusses sleep stages and dreams.
The document discusses how alcohol affects circadian rhythms. It begins by introducing circadian rhythms as the body's natural sleep-wake cycle regulated on a 24-hour schedule. The author then reviews research showing that alcohol lowers body temperature, destroys brain cells, and impacts motor functions controlled by the cerebellum. By disrupting temperature regulation and balance, alcohol intake makes it difficult for the body to transition to sleep. Therefore, the conclusion is that alcohol does influence circadian rhythms by acting as an inhibitor.
This document defines various chronobiological terms and discusses the relevance of chronobiology in psychiatry. It provides an overview of the biological clock and circadian rhythms, including definitions of key terms. It describes the molecular mechanisms underlying biological clocks, as well as how circadian rhythms influence important human functions. It also discusses how disruptions to circadian rhythms can contribute to psychiatric conditions like sleep disorders, seasonal affective disorder, and depression.
Circadian rhythms also known as "The Body Clock" is the physical, mental and behavioral changes that follow roughly 24 hrs. cycle responding to light and darkness in the organism.
The document discusses the biological clock, an internal system that controls circadian rhythms in organisms. It describes the biological clock's location in the brain near where the optic nerves cross. It then outlines different types of biological rhythms like circadian, ultradian, and infradian rhythms. The presentation concludes that biological clocks play a vital role in regulating bodily processes like sleep, temperature, and reproduction and ensuring sensitivity to substances depends on the time of day.
Circadian rhythms refer to biological cycles that occur over approximately 24 hours. The suprachiasmatic nucleus (SCN) in the hypothalamus acts as the master pacemaker regulating circadian rhythms. Lesions to the SCN abolish circadian rhythms, while transplanted SCN tissue can impart rhythms to recipient animals. The SCN receives light input from retinal ganglion cells that contain melanopsin photoreceptors sensitive to blue light wavelengths.
Faraz Tak's sleep pattern and circadian rhythm were disrupted by his 24-hour work shifts as a medical student. During shifts, his melatonin release was not sufficient at night due to artificial light exposure, preventing him from falling asleep. To remedy this, he created a dark environment when sleeping during the day to trick his brain into thinking it was nighttime and releasing melatonin, allowing him to get a more restful sleep.
The document discusses biorhythms and how the body's physical and mental states cycle throughout the day in regular patterns. It notes that biorhythms affect individuals from birth throughout life. The three main biorhythmic cycles are physical, emotional, and intellectual. Good sleep is important for regeneration and recovery, and different people have different natural sleep patterns as either "larks" or "owls". The biological clock controls daily cycles in organ function and energy levels throughout the day and night.
PSYA3 - Biological Rhythms powerpoint.
100 slides because there's a lot to know! Condensed it as much as possible.
Includes:
Biological rhythms - Circadian, Infradian, Ultradian, endogenous pacemakers, exogenous zeitgebers & consequences of disruption of said rhythms
Sleep states -
lifespan changes, restorative theory, evolutionary evaluations
Disorders of sleep - Insomnia & other sleep disorders.
There's minimal evaluation for Infradian - so do it yourself :D
Chronopharmacology is the study of variations in drug effects over biological times and circadian rhythms. It considers how drugs interact with living systems depending on the time of day they are administered. Biological rhythms like circadian (24-hour), ultradian (<20 hours), and infradian (>28 hours) rhythms influence physiological functions and drug pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics. Chronotherapy aims to increase drug efficacy and safety by timing drug administration according to biological rhythms. It has applications in treating cancers, asthma, hypertension, strokes, and other conditions. Recent advances include circadian-aligned drug delivery systems and future approaches may integrate chronopharmacology with systems biology and nanomedicine.
This document discusses biological rhythms, including circadian rhythms that have a period close to 24 hours, diurnal rhythms that are synchronized with the day-night cycle, and ultradian and infradian rhythms with shorter or longer periods. It describes how the suprachiasmatic nuclei act as the circadian clock in the brain to regulate rhythms in body temperature, hormones, sleep/wake cycles and other functions. Disruptions to these biological clocks, such as from jet lag or shift work, can negatively impact performance and well-being. While some effects of time of day on functions like memory and alertness have been observed, the theory of biorhythms affecting daily life in 3 day cycles is considered pseud
Proceedings of the National Conference on "Chronobiology and Health" organised at by Deptt of Physiology, MGMCRI, Sri Balaji Vidyapeeth at Pondicherry, India on 18-19 March 2016.
Learning to Learn: Leveraging your Circadian RhythmScoop.it
The document discusses how a person's circadian rhythm, or biological clock, impacts their cognitive ability and productivity at different times of the day. It explains that circadian rhythms vary between individuals and discovering your own rhythm through self-awareness and tracking can help you schedule tasks during the times when you are most focused and creative. Optimizing your schedule according to your circadian rhythm allows you to leverage your peak periods of cognitive performance for increased efficiency.
This document discusses chronobiology, the field of biology examining periodic phenomena in living organisms and their adaptation to environmental rhythms like day-night cycles. It notes that biological rhythms occur for many essential processes in animals, plants, and microbes. The most important rhythm is the circadian rhythm, which fluctuates on a roughly 24-hour cycle. Biological clocks generate biological rhythms endogenously, while environmental cues like light can entrain rhythms to synchronize with external cycles. Core concepts and terms in chronobiology are defined, like circadian, ultradian, infradian, zeitgebers, and entrainment.
Circadian Rhythms of Food Intake: Are You Seeing The Whole Picture? InsideScientific
Dr. John Lighton, PhD and InsideScientific discuss the importance of metabolism and its relation to behavioral studies in the mouse model.
“Micro-intake events” can comprise between 20% to 50% of total feeding events in C57BL/6 mice on a 12H/12H diurnal cycle. Given that each event corresponds to a decision to initiate intake followed by rapid satiety and termination of feeding behavior, what is the relevance of these gustatory signals to the brain? And how does one measure the outcome?
Animal behavior and metabolism are traditionally measured using very different techniques operating at divergent timescales that are often poorly, if at all, synchronized. This makes analyzing meaningful correlations between metabolic measurements, intake events and animal behavior difficult or virtually impossible. To address this challenge, Sable Systems thought out the design of an integrated metabolic and behavioral monitoring system that would no only provide researchers the collective measurement capabilities needed by also introduce a re-thinking of current best practices.
In addition to presenting essential physiology concepts, Dr. Lighton demonstrates the power of synchronized data acquisition with temporal resolution and precision that can extract unprecedented detail from circadian cycles of behavior and metabolism.
The document discusses the limbic system, which is a set of brain structures involved in emotion, learning, and memory. It includes the hippocampus, amygdala, hypothalamus, and connections between cortical and subcortical regions. The limbic system regulates many functions including emotion, learning, memory formation, and autonomic nervous system activity. Key structures like the hippocampus and amygdala each have distinct roles - the hippocampus is important for memory formation while the amygdala processes emotions. Lesions in different limbic system areas can impact neurophysiological functions and lead to effects on behaviors regulated by that region.
Circadian rhythms are biological processes that display an approximately 24-hour cycle. The document discusses the history and types of biological rhythms, focusing on circadian rhythms which are regulated by the suprachiasmatic nucleus in the brain. It describes how circadian rhythms influence many physiological functions and the absorption, distribution, metabolism, and elimination of drugs. Timed or chronotherapy aims to deliver drugs at times that synchronize with the body's natural rhythms to maximize efficacy and minimize side effects.
This document provides an overview of states of consciousness and related topics. It defines consciousness and describes Freud's theory of the conscious vs. unconscious mind. It discusses higher-level and lower-level consciousness and examples of each. Altered states of consciousness like those from drugs, trauma or hypnosis are explained. The roles of sleep stages, dreams, circadian rhythms, and diseases like insomnia are outlined. Finally, the effects of psychoactive drugs like stimulants, depressants, and hallucinogens are summarized.
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Sleep is defined as unconsciousness from which the person can be aroused by sensory or other
stimuli.
distinguished from coma, which is unconsciousness from which the person cannot be
aroused. There are multiple stages of sleep, from very light sleep to very deep sleep; sleep
researchers also divide sleep into two entirely different types of sleep that have different qualities,
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- The definition of consciousness and its components.
- How attention works and its limitations, including inattentional blindness.
- How circadian rhythms regulate consciousness over 24-hour periods through biological clocks like the suprachiasmatic nucleus.
- The stages of sleep including REM and NREM sleep, and how sleep patterns change over the lifespan.
- Theories of dreaming such as Freud's theory of dreams fulfilling wishes and the activation-synthesis model of dreaming.
- Common sleep disorders like insomnia, sleepwalking, and nightmares.
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Biological rhythms and sleep
1.
2. Circadian rhythms:
• Occur once every 24 hours.
• Many hormones (neurotransmitters, example:
cortisol) and other physiological processes show a
similar circadian variation in activity.
Examples:
• Sleep/wake cycle (controlled by endogenous
pacemakers working as a body clock) with melatonin
peaking at midnight to continue sleep according to
light levels (darkest at 12)
• Body temperature (at its lowest at 4am, and highest
in the afternoon. Also a dip after lunch (bigger dip if
eaten but still occurs if not). Siestas relate to dip.))
• Cortisol is at its lowest around midnight and highest a
6am.
• Nocturnal animals sleep during the day, diurnal at
night to provide energy when needed.
Key Studies:
• Siffre (1972).
• Folkard et al.
Infradian rhythms:
• Occur less than once every 24
hours.
Examples:
• Menstrual cycle (every month)
• Hibernation (for some animals
to conserve energy)
• Migration.
Key Studies:
• Stephan and Zucker (1972).
Ultradian rhythms:
• Occur more than once every
24 hours.
Examples:
• Eating cycle.
• Sleep/wake stages.
Key Studies:
• Abraham, Gwinner and Van’t
Hof.
• Binkley.
3. Stage 1:
• Like deep relaxation
• Lowered heart rate, muscle tension and
temperature.
• Easy to awaken.
• Theta waves (4 to 7 Hz)
Stage 2:
• Has slower and larger desynchronised EEG
(electroencephalograph) waves, with some quick
bursts of high frequency waves (spindles).
• Theta waves dominant but periodic bursts of
sleep spindles (12-16 Hz)
Stage 3:
• Has even larger, slower waves.
• Heart rate and temperature falls.
• Delta waves (1-4 Hz) appear and number of
spindles fall.
Stage 4:
• Has largest, slowest, deepest delta wave
Metabolic activity is low.
• Hard to wake as at this stage sleep is deepest.
REM (rapid eye movement) or Paradoxical sleep:
• Most active part.
• Muscles lose tension but still twitch.
• Most vivid dreaming and rapid eye movement.
• After progression from stage 4, (roughly 75
minutes) starts cycle again, but from stage 2.
• May be increased heart rate and blood pressure
(resulting in erections and an increase in vaginal
flow) but difficult to awaken.
• Full cycle is around 90 minutes.
SAD (Seasonal affective disorder):
Type of depression. Reduced amount of sunlight in
autumn causes lack of brain activity. Infradian
Treatment is Light Treatment. Main hormone:
melatonin.
Waking/Sleeping EEG’S:
• Desynchronised: No regular pattern of electrical activity.
Typically found during active, aroused state awake.
• Synchronised: Regular pattern of electrical activity, signifying
millions of neurons firing together. Usually recorded during
sleep. Consist of wave patterns of particular amplitude and
frequency (Hz). Examples: deep sleep = one large wave per
second.
Differing waves:
• Theta waves: smaller waves.
• Delta waves: Larger waves .
External Cues:
• Sleep lightens towards morning with production of serotonin
in accordance with light levels, spending more time in NREM
stages 2 and REM (easier to awaken)
Focus:
• There is more focus in studies on the nature and functions of
REM sleep rather than symbolism of dreams as REM is a
physiological state and dreams have subjective meaning and
can have different interpretations.
• Existence of dreams is only known through own experiences
and reports of participants.
• There is no objective method of measuring dreams unlike
EEG’s for sleep waves.
Key Studies:
Aserinsky and Kleitman (1953) and Derment and Kleitman (1957)
Jouvet (1967)
Key words:
• Raphe nucleus: in RAS, initiates NREM (Jouvet (1967)).
• Locus Coeruleus: produces noradrenaline which leads to REM
sleep. Inactive during REM sleep and awake. Involved in the
special arousal that helps with memories, explaining why we do
not remember dreaming.
• Ascending Reticular Formation: Network of neurons. Controls
brain arousal state.
4. Jet Lag:
• Rapid disruption of sleep rhythms.
• Most frequently encountered.
• Dislocation between body clock and local zeitgebers,
resulting in extreme tiredness, depression, slow
mental/physical reactions.
Phases:
• Phase delay: east to west.
• Wants to sleep in early evening and wake in early hours.
• Correctable by attempting to be alert/active when you
need to sleep.
• Phase advance: west to east.
• time is later than internal clock so have to advance o
catch up.
• More difficult to correct.
• Leads to tiredness, confusion and desynchronisation of
other rhythms (shown in Siffre’s study).
Key Studies:
• Recht, Lew and Schwartz.
• Beaumont et al
• Sack et al
Reduce effects:
• Sleep well before flight.
• Avoid caffeine.
• Try to adjust – sleep at correct times.
• Go out in daylight ASAP.
Factors effecting severity:
• Direction of travel (phase delay/phase advance)
• Number of time zones crossed.
• Age.
• Individual Differences (some people are phase tolerance.)
Shift Work:
• Started in 19th century with the invention
of light bulbs – allowing unnatural
distribution of external zeitgebers.
Concerns:
• Performance affected.
• Depression.
• Fatigue.
• Illness.
Explanation:
• Between 2-4am, body tried to sleep.
• Also results in sleep deprivation
(prolonged exposure to little sleep) as try
to stay up to have social life.
Key Studies:
• Czeiser, Moore-Ede and Coleman
• Gordon et al
• Sack et al.
Rotation types:
• Forward shift rotation: Shift hours go
forward (Nights, mornings, days)
• Backward shift rotation: traditional shift
work. Harder on participants.
Shift lengths:
• Multiple studies have found that longer
shift patterns (of around 21 days
compared to traditional 7 days) and
better on the worker, socially and
biologically.
5.
6. Restoration Theory:
• Focuses on purpose of sleep restoring
body and mind from days events.
Main Theories:
• Oswald (1966): NREM (stage 1-4) are
all needed to repair the body.
• REM is essential to repair the brain.
• Horne: ‘Core Sleep’ is stage 4 and
REM sleep. Its function is to repair
the brain.
• ‘Optional Sleep’ is stages 1-3 and is
not needed.
• Restoration of the body happens
when we are awake and relaxed.
Evidence for restoration theory:
• Total sleep deprivation studies:
Everson (rats), Michel Corke (fatal
familial insomnia), Peter Trip (awake
for 8 days)
• Partial sleep deprivation studies:
Jouvet (cats and human study) and
Dement (human REM deprivation)
Evolutionary theory:
• Sleep is a period of vulnerability for all
animals affected by multiple factors so
must be very necessary for us to sleep
anyway.
• Size/environment/trophic position.
Main Theories:
• Meddis: sleep keeps animals safe. By being
quite and still, they are less likely to attract
predators (especially in low visibility at
night.)
• However, they are more vulnerable if they
are sleeping while they are discovered.
• Webb: sleep is similar to hibernation.
• Using energy would be inefficient at night
as retrieving food is harder.
• Sleep conserves energy when resources are
hard.
Evidence against restoration theory:
• Horne and Pettitt (Reward overcomes
deprivation to extent)
Evidence for Webb’s evolutionary theory:
• Lesku et al: Animal species.
• Allison and Cicchetti: predator/prey.
• Savage and West: brain meta analysis.
Evidence against evolutionary theory:
• Zepelin and Rechstaffen: different
calculators.
7. Newborns:
• Sleep on average 16-18 hours a day.
• In early months, an infant sleep is divided
equally between REM and NREM
(different for premature babies).
• EEG of sleeping infant in REM sleep is
highly similar to waking EEG.
• In REM, infants are restless, with arms
and legs moving almost constantly (also
happens before birth).
• Different sleep stages: entering REM sleep
immediately after falling to sleep. Not
until around 3 months that NREM and
REM are established.
• Regular sleeping pattern is normally
established around 20 weeks.
1-5:
• Usually sleep about 13-14 hours.
• Sleep stages occur ever 45-60 minutes.
5-10:
• Sleep stages increase to around 70
minutes. (Borbely).
• Between 5 and 12, nocturnal sleep drops
to around 9-10 hours.
10-12:
• Experience ‘sleep-wake utopia’, studied
by Dement.
Teenagers:
• Marks onset of adolescence and sexual and pituitary
growth hormones are released in pulses during slow-
wave sleep.
• Melatonin is the hormone that determines the
biological clock in every cell in the body, but a decrease
in melatonin signals the body to begin puberty.
• Sleep quality and quantity do not change, but various
external pressure (school and shit) may lead to some
having a less regular sleep cycle.
18-30:
• Start sleeping/having deep sleep less but isn’t
significant enough to be noticed.
• Also experience daytime sleepiness (Dement)
30-45:
• People start to notice swallowing and shortening of
sleep (sign of middleage).
• Women suffer loss of hormones due to menopause and
men, less noticeably, through andropause.
• Causes earlier sleeping times, worsening effects of
sleep deprivation and poor quality of sleep.
• Duration falls to 7 hours and stage 4 all but disappears.
• Age related effects on the prostrate mean sleep is
disturbed.
Studies:
• Van Cauter.
• Floyd et al.
• Eaton-Evans and Dugdale.
• Dement.
• Baird.
• Borbely et al.
8. Dyssomnias:
• Problems with
amount/quality/time of sleep.
• Often produces daytime tiredness.
• Including insomnia and narcolepsy.
Parasomnias:
• Behavioural/psychological events
during sleep.
• Rarely associated with daytime
tiredness.
• Include sleep walking and
nightmares.
Insomnia:
• Secondary insomnia: single, underlying medical,
psychiatric or environmental cause, meaning
insomnia is a symptom for another, main disorder
(depression/heart disease).
• Common for those who do shift work or have
circadian rhythm disorders – result of environmental
factors such as caffeine.
• Diagnosis: sleep onset latency of 30 minutes. Sleep
efficiency of less than 85%. Increased number of
night time awakening. Symptoms reoccur more than
3 times a week.
• Duration: transient insomnia (less than one week
and often associated with something in particular.
Short term – 1-4 week.) Chronic/clinical insomnia
(more than one month. Has significant and
distressing effect on daytime functioning due to
tiredness ad irritability.)
Narcolepsy:
• Mitler – ‘sleepiness one feels when trying to complete a boring
task at 3 a.m. after 72 hours of total sleep deprivation.’
• Extreme tiredness in the day, many also have cataplexy (brief
and sudden loss of muscle tone with no loss of consciousness
– range of severity, from mild weakness to collapses),
disturbed sleep, sleep attacks, hypnogogic (sleep onset) and
hypnopompic (sleep offset) hallucinations (vivid dream like
experiences lasting seconds to 20 minutes but easily aroused
by touch or noise) and sleep paralysis. These can occur
immediately or after.
• Uncommon – affects between 0.03% and 0.18% of the
population (Nishino et al)
• Occurs in late teens, early twenties in most but 25% only get
symptoms at around 40 (Honda et al)
• Main symptom – sleep attack. Occur at times of physical
inactivity/boredom and preceded with drowsiness. But can
occur at any time with no warning.
• They are easily awoken, feel refreshed, with another attack
unlikely for several hours.
• Most common trigger is sudden emotion – surprise, laughter
or anger.
Neural explanation:
• Hypocretin is believed to be a main factor.
Key Studies:
• Broughton et al.
• McMahon et al.
• Scammell et al.
• Arii et al.
9. Folkard et al:
• Studied 12 participants, living in a cave for 3 weeks.
• They agreed to go to bed when the clock read 11.45 and wake
at 7.45.
• Gradually quickening the clock to a 22 hour day – circadian
rhythms continued running on a 24 hour cycle.
• After experiment, it only took participants a short amount of
time to resynchronise (showing importance of external
zeitgebers)
Conclusion:
• Circadian rhythms can only be guided to a limited extent by
external cues.
(Evaluation same a Siffre)
Peter Tripp:
• NYC disc jockey, stayed awake for 8 days for charity. Suffered
delusions and hallucinations (desk on fire).
Stephan and Zucker:
• Damaged SCN (superchiasmatic nucleus) of rats.
• Influenced circadian rhythms. Examples:
• Changed drinking patterns.
• Running on wheel at differing times.
Conclusion:
• SCN is one of the key endogenous pacemakers.
Strengths:
• Zucker, Boshes and Darks squirrel study and
Rasak and Zuckers hamster study showed similar
results.
• Laboratory based study (reliable and easy to
determine cause and effect.)
Weaknesses:
• High death rate (only 11/25 survived).
• Lacks ecological validity, generalizability and
mundane realism as performed on rats.
Siffre:
• Measured brain, heart, blood pressure and body temperature while in a cave for six months to
study the effect of external zeitgebers on circadian rhythms.
• His days extended to 27 to 35 hours with no external zeitgebers.
• Sleep and temperature remained normal.
Conclusion:
• Maintenance of normal circadian rhythms is dependent on external zeitgebers, resulting in free
running rhythms.
Strengths:
• Laboratory based (reliable)
• Folkard et al study showed similar results
• Abraham, Gwinner and Vant Hof, Injected sparrows with melatonin and made them sleep,
showing melatonin's importance in sleep.
• Binkley: Injected melatonin into chickens. Found it lower at dawn, suggesting its role in sleep.
Weaknesses:
• Siffre appeared depressed in the cave but was offered no counselling/debriefing before, during
or after the study.
• Case study – may not be generalizable.
Recht, Lew and Schwartz:
• Studied American baseball teams (US has four
time zones.)
• Teams travelling west to east before games won
37% of games.
• Teams travelling east to west before games won
44% of games.
Conclusion:
• Teams suffering from phase advance suffered
from the effects of jet lag less and those teams
with phase delay.
Strengths:
• Over whole season – reliable
• Sack et al found that the effects decrease with
age.
• Beaumont et al found that melatonin sped up
resynchronisation by taking it at bedtime 3 days
before and 5 days after travel.
Weaknesses:
• May have just been differences in the teams
performance.
Czeiser, Moore-Ede and Coleman:
• Changed rotation of shifts while measuring stress levels, health
and productivity to find which rotation is better.
• Increased shift size from 7 days to 21 days.
Conclusion:
• Suggested forward shift rotation (phase delay) is better after
finding in a 9 month study on participants working phase delay
type shifts had less stress, fewer sleep/health problems and
increased productivity.
Strengths:
• Gordon et al: Studies Philadelphia police on 18 day forward
shift rotation courses, finding 30% less sleeping on the job, 40%
less accidents, better sleep and less stress than while on
shorter, backward shift rotations.
• Ecologically/population valid.
• Generalizable.
• Phillips et al stated that no shit changes are better.
• Sack et al found that planned napping reduces tiredness on
night shifts (Extreme Crabbers)
Weaknesses:
• Attrition (long study)
• Could be other factors.
• Coren studies rapid rotations, 2/3 day rotations, but had no
evidence and participants appeared depressed at lack of social
life.
Aserinsky and Kleitman (1953) improved by Derment and Kleitman (1957):
• Progression from stage 1-4 of NREM (none-REM) sleep is accompanied by physiological changes
:1) decreased in respiration, heart rate and blood pressure. 2) blood flow to brain slows,
indicating reduced activity.
• Also found REM sleep is associated with dreaming by waking people at various stages. 80% of
people awoken during REM sleep remembered dreaming while only 20% reported dreaming if
awoken during NREM sleep.
Jouvet:
• Lesioned raphe systems in cats and found
that this resulted in sleeplessness, concluding
serotonin and raphe nucleus initiate sleep.
Everson:
• 10 rats kept awake on disc (died). Lost weight,
ate more.
Michel Corke:
• Really bad insomnia that kills.(appearing at
30 to 60). Showing that sleep is important.
Dement:
• Students woken every time EEG showed they
were entering REM sleep. When stopped,
they needed more REM sleep, which
returned to normal after 5 days. Concluded
REM is needed as more was required when
prevented.
Horne and Pettitt:
• 3 groups; 1) 72 hours without sleep with no
reward 2) 72 hours without sleep with
incentive 3) normal sleep. All did auditory
tasks – 2+3=same on first day, 2 worse on
second but 1 worse throughout. (only 15
ppts. – 4th group)
Lesku et al:
• 54 animal species, measured mass, brain mass, BMR, trophic position.
Allison and Cicchetti:
• 39 species of predators and prey – prey have more
sleep – opposing Meddis.
Savage and West:
• Meta analysis.
• Focuses on brain size.
• 96 species.
Zepelin and Rechstaffen:
• May use different BMI calculators,
resulting in negative correlation.
Dement:
• Pre-teens are bursting with energy in the day,
sleeping soundly at night and instantily wide
awake come morning.
10. Dement:
• 53% of 18-29 year olds suffer from daytime sleepiness as they need
as much sleep as teens but get less because of social pressures.
Van Cauter:
• Examined several sleep studies involving male participants.
• Sleep was found to decrease during two life periods: between the
ages of 16 to 25 and 35 to 50.
Floyd et at:
• Reviewed almost 400 sleep studies, finding that REM sleep
decreased by about 0.6% a decade.
• Proportion of REM sleep increases from about age 70, though this
may be due to overall sleep duration declining.
Eaton-Evans and Dugdale:
• Found that the number of sleep periods for a baby decreases until
about 6 months, then increases until 9 months of age, before slowly
decreasing again.
• May be from teething problems.
Dement:
• Reported that over 40% of a group of healthy men and women aged
65 to 88 had some form of sleep apnoea. The majority being
frequent ‘micro-arousals’, which are unremembered brief
awakening lasting 3 or less seconds, occurring between 200 and 100
times a night.
Baird et al:
• Found that infants aged 6-12 months with an increased risk of
waking between midnight and 6a.m. had mothers who had
experience depressive symptoms prior to becoming pregnant.
• Night waking in the first year of child's life is associated with sleep
disruption at 3 and later behaviour problems and learning
difficulties, demonstrating the importance of early sleeping patterns
and the mental health of woman prior to conception.
Borbely:
• Questioned adults aged 65-83 on their sleeping habits, finding that
60% of them reported taking frequently daily naps.
• Sleep in the elderly is more interrupted, but they continue to need
the same amount of sleep as they did in early adulthood, hence the
need for naps.
Broughton et al:
• 80% of a sample of narcolepsy sufferers had fallen asleep during
work more than once.
McMahon:
• Compared to a sample of 2406 non-sufferers, narcolepsy sufferers
reported more family problems (21%), social isolation (35%), and
physical/emotional health impairments (25%).
Scammell:
• Reported on 23 year old who got narcolepsy after damaged to his
hypothalamus after a stroke.
• He tested his cerebrospinal fluid showed reduced amount of
Hypocretin
Arii at al:
• Reported that case of someone who showed signs of narcolepsy as
a result of a tumor.