When you are sleeping, do you:1. Awaken easily at any noise2. Fall asleep to music or TV3. Sleep deeply through anything4. Use the computer or play video games an hour or less before going to sleep?

Do Now

Do Now

Reading: Sleep Deprivation May be Ruining Teen Health: (American Psychological Association)

Sleep Journal

You will record your sleep patterns over the next two weeks.Starting tonight – write down:• Activities before bed• Computer/video game use before bed• Caffeinated Drinks per day• Time go to bed• Time fell asleep• Time woke up• Any night time awakenings.• How did you feel the next day.

States of Consciousness

Levels of ConsciousnessSleep and Dreaming

Sleep Disorders

What are the key ideas in this unit?

What is the difference between Conscious, Unconscious and Subconscious?

• Many states of consciousness

• Daydreaming, dozing, deep sleep, awareness – all different aspects of consciousness

• Unconscious – physically unable to awaken

• Subconscious – inner thoughts and feelings you are not totally aware of

What is Unconsciousness?

• Physical loss of responsiveness to the environment

• Causes: disease, trauma, anesthesia• Consciousness can be altered by: sleep,

hypnosis, medication, meditation and injury

What is a Coma?• A Coma is a profound state of unconsciousness.• A comatose person cannot be awakened, fails to

respond normally to pain, light or sound, does not have sleep/wake cycles and does not initiate voluntary actions. (More than 6 days).

• The underlying cause of coma is bilateral damage to the Reticular Activating System in the midbrain which is important in regulating sleep

• Coma can result from: stroke, trauma, intoxication, hypoxia or induced as a form of preserving higher

brain function during healing process

Glasgow Coma ScaleGenerally, brain injury is classified as:Severe, with GCS less than 8Moderate, GCS 9 - 12Minor, GCS greater than 13.

What is Sleep?

• Your body’s own circadian rhythm – biological clock• You don’t have to do anything to allow your normal

sleep pattern to emerge…..it’s called a free running cycle

• When your parents brought you home from the hospital and trained you to sleep at night…that is called entrainment

• When you have sleep deprivation – you will make up for it by sleeping more in REM sleep days later. This is called REM Rebound.

Many states of consciousness• Unconscious – • physically unable to awaken• Subconscious – • inner thoughts and feelings you are not totally

aware of• A comatose person • cannot be awakened, fails to respond normally

to pain, light or sound

What did we Learn?

• The severity of a coma is measured by the• Glasgow Coma Scale. • Circadian rhythms are• Your natural biological clock• Entrainment is• Training your body when to sleep• When you don’t get enough sleep it’s called• Sleep Deprivation• Making up for lost sleep time by sleeping

more for a few days is:• REM Rebound

Do Now: ReadingChanging School Start Times

Why do teens need more sleep?What is it like for a teen to be in school at 7 AM?What changes in their brains at this age to cause sleep changes?

What exactly happens during sleep?

Consciousness

Awareness

Responsiveness

Physiological

awakening

You cycle through various stages when you are sleeping.

How does our body know when to sleep?

•Regulates temperature, blood pressure, pulse, blood sugar, throughout the day•Your free running biological clock is 25 hours long

Hypothalamus

•Your natural biological clock – during light/dark turns into 24 •Cycles all day and night

Circadian rhythms

•RAS (Reticular Activating System) – changes in wakefulness, arousal, attention, mood, energy level•Night shift work, jetlag disrupt circadian rhythms

Reticular Formation

Sleep Deprivation makes you drowsy

Unable to concentrate, impairs memory and

concentration

Impacts Immune System

Sleep time seems to decrease from about 16 to 18 hours for a newborn to 7 or 8 for an adult

What is Sleep Deprivation

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Types of Sleep: Non REM

• NREM is the first type of sleep you enter when you first nod off.

• Most of our time asleep is spent here, making up for 75% of an adults sleep.

• NREM is split into 4 stages, with each stage taking you deeper and deeper into sleep.

First 4 Sleep Stages – NREM (Non Rem)

Twilight Sleep: sensation of falling, peaceful, hazy, Melatonin triggered

Fail to immediately respond to outside stimuli

Stage 1: Sudden twitches and hynic jerks (myoclonus reactions) Lose most conscious awareness of the external environment.

Stage 2: sleep spindles (bursts), lose all awareness of environment

Stage 3: Slow wave sleep – sleep walking, bedwetting can be issues

Stage 4: Heart beat drops, BP low, H.G.H secreted

• You go backwards! Passing back through stages 3,2, and 1 – but THEN something else happens….

• You begin REM Sleep (Rapid Eye Movement)• Every 90 minutes after falling asleep your eyes

jerk back and forth in various directions• Your limbs become paralyzed• B.P., heart rate increases

What happens after stages 1-4?

Through the night you cycle through stages with REM increasing in length –then decreasing towards awakening.

• REM sleep in adult humans typically occupies 20–25% of total sleep about 90–120 minutes of a night's sleep.

• During a normal night of sleep, humans usually experience about four or five periods of REM sleep; they are quite short at the beginning of the night and longer toward the end.

• Many animals and some people tend to wake, or experience a period of very light sleep, for a short time immediately after a bout of REM.

• The relative amount of REM sleep varies considerably with age.

• A newborn baby spends more than 80% of total sleep time in REM

• During REM, the activity of the brain is quite similar to that during waking hours; for this reason, the REM-sleep stage may be called paradoxical sleep

• Vividly recalled dreams mostly occur during REM sleep

REM SLEEP

Living with Cataplexy

Overview

REM Behavior Disorder

Reading: “Rough Night: How do you know whether someone was asleep

when he strangled his wife?”

DO NOW

Due: Psychology Semester Project

Sleep Journals

EXAM: Friday Dec. 9th – Sleep & Consciousness

Night Terrors

What are some Sleep Disorders

• Insomnia: inability to fall/maintain sleep

• Narcolepsy : a sleep disorder that causes excessive sleepiness and frequent daytime sleep attacks

• Cataplexy: rare sleep disorder that causes immediate REM sleep when excited or emotional

• Restless Leg Syndrome is a disorder in which there is an urge or need to move the legs to stop unpleasant sensation

• Sleep apnea is a condition in which a person has episodes of blocked breathing during sleep

Sleep & Neurological Disorders

• Cataplexy• Myoconia Congenita (Fainting Goats)

When do you have nightmares?

• Occur during REM Sleep – most dreams occur during this phase

• Dreams remembered from other stages are less emotional and sensible

• Lucid Dreaming: training to be aware of and direct one’s dreams to help cure people of nightmares.

• Incubus: Night Terrors – wake during REM – happens to young children often after disruption of sleep cycle, (holidays, guests, vacations, etc.)

Sleep and Dreaming

• The theory of why we dream is a Construct.• A Construct is to create something in your

mind: such as a theory as a result of systematic thought

What do dreams mean?Some popular theories

• Freud: “Royal road to the unconscious”

• “Manifest Content” – remembered parts

• “Latent Content” - underlying meaning

• McCarley and Hobson: Activation Synthesis Theory: during dreams the pons generates bursts of action potentials to the brain

• You try to create a story line out of it (synthesize)

• Origins of dreams are either psychological or physiological depending on what theory you follow

• Most of your dreams happen between 4 and 7 am.

• http://www.luciddreamguru.com/dild.php

What do I need to know about sleep?

• There are different phases of sleep from just being drowsy to awakening

• 4 phases in non rem (NREM) and 4 in REM (rapid eye movement)• REM is a very active period in your brain, but you are physically

paralyzed.• Teens need 9 plus hours a night for optimum health – but often don’t

get it• Adults need less as they age• Dreams – most occur between 4-7 am• Theories: repressed desires, spindle bursts in brain, reorganization of

thoughts• Disorders: Isomnia, Narcolepsy, Night Terrors, Apnea, Restless Leg

Syndrome.

Tomorrow: Friday Dec. 9th 2011• Test on Sleep & Consciousness• You will NOT be able to use your notes…

today you will create a study guide that you may use if you remember to bring it!

• Sleep Journals Due: Tomorrow at latest• Projects Due: (Unless we already have an

agreement), due latest by Friday.• Vocabulary Worksheet: Work on today –

hand in for extra 10 points on test for tomorrow !

Things you need to know

• Difference between consciousness, subconscious, unconscious• Stage 1 or Twilight sleep – knee jerk reflex, Stage 2 – sleep talking, Stage 3

– sleep walking• Other terms for Sleep Walking, Bedwetting• Difference between NREM and REM• Types of Sleep Disorders• Circadian Rhythm, Free Running Cycle• Average need for sleep for adults – 8 ours, teens more• Term for lack of sleep• When do you dream?• Content of Dreams? Manifest, (me) and Latent (underlying) (Freud)• What part of your brain controls circadian rhythms? What part of your

brain controls temperature, respiration while sleeping, (at other times too)• Disorders of sleep common in children

Sleep Day!

• You can wear pajama bottoms/sweats – appropriate please.

• Bring: pillow, blanket, yoga mat, sleeping bag, stuffed animal….you can drop it off here in the morning and pick up later if you like.

• iPod with headphones is okay – just play it low so you don’t bother anyone trying to sleep