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Changes in awareness produced by sleep, meditation, hynosis, and drugs.
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Altered states of consciousness
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What the hormone melatonin does
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Effective treatment for relapses of psychiatric disorders induced by jet lag.
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Jetlag & its relationship to psychiatric disorders
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Travelers whose psychiatric disorders are in remission are at risk of suffering relapses when they cross several time zones.
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1) slow, low-voltage EEG, relaxing
2) further slowing & relaxing 3)slow, high-voltage delta waves start 4) more than 50% delta waves |
Stages of Sleep
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type of sleep characterized by rapid eye movement, paralysis of large muscles, fast and irregular heart and respiration rates, increased brain-wave activity and vivid dreams
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REM sleep
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Increased amount of REM sleep that occurs after REM deprivation; often associated with unpleasant dreams or nightmares
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REM rebound
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* awaken early every morning and leap out of bed eager to start the day
*stays up late and sleeps in late |
larks vs. owls
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stay up late on friday and saturday and sleep in on saturday and sunday, hard to get to sleep sunday night
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cause of monday morning blues
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effects of sleep deprivation
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sleep deprivation impairs a variety of cognitive functions, such as the retrieval of recently learned information from memory
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sleep disturbances in which behaviors and physiological states that normally take place only in the waking state occur while a person is sleeping.
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parasomnias
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memory of sleepwalking
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there is no memory of the episode the following day
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Narcolepsy, sleep apnea, insomnia
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major sleep disorders
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helps individuals learn to control their emotions
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benefits of meditation
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any substance that alters mood, perception, or thought; called a controlled substance if approved for medical use
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psychoative drug
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physical and psychological symptoms that occur when a regularly used drug is discontinued and that terminate when the drug is taken again
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withdrawal symptom
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*compulsive pattern of drug use in which the user develops a drug tolerance coupled with unpleasant withdrawal symptoms when the drug use is discontinued
* craving or irresistable urge for a drug's pleasurable effects |
physical addiction vs. psychological dependence
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most addictive drug
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cocaine
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category of drugs that can alter and distort perceptions of time and space, alter mood, produce feelings of unreality, and cause hallucinations
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hallucinogens
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