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    Giuseppe BARBATO

    Insegnamento di PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGY OF SLEEP AND BIOLOGICAL RHYTHMS

    Corso di laurea magistrale in PSICOLOGIA DEI PROCESSI COGNITIVI

    SSD: M-PSI/02

    CFU: 6,00

    ORE PER UNITÀ DIDATTICA: 42,00

    Periodo di Erogazione: Secondo Semestre

    Italiano

    Lingua di insegnamento

    INGLESE

    English

    Teaching language

    English

    Contents

    Mechanisms and functions of sleep and of circadian rhythms. Modification of sleep patterns due to mental illness. Circadian and seasonal rhythms. Sleep and dreaming.

    Textbook and course materials

    A manual of standardized terminology, techniques and scoring system for sleep stages of human subjects:A. Rechtschaffen and A. Kales (Editors). (Public Health Service, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington
    The Rhythms Of Life: The Biological Clocks That Control the Daily Lives of Every Living ThingLeon Kreitzman , Russell Foster, Profile Books, 2011
    Rapid Eye Movement Sleep, Birendra N. Mallick , S.R.Pandi-Perumal, Robert W. McCarley,Adrian R. Morrison, Cambridge, 2011.

    Course objectives

    Knowledge on functions of sleep and of circadian rhythms.

    Prerequisites

    Background on basic physiology

    Teaching methods

    Presentation of relevant literature, eeg staging , discussion on models of sleep studies.

    Evaluation methods

    Discussion on the different topics presented, ability to recognize typical sleep patterns, significance of sleep studies.

    Course Syllabus

    Sleep : Theories on sleep function. Sleep duration: short and long sleepers.
    Sleep Assessment Methodologies : Polysomnography, sleep stages (stage scoring and analysis methods)
     Delta sleep :  restorative function, homeostasis, delta sleep significance for mental processes. 
    REM sleep: Hypothesis on REM sleep function, REM regulation: circadian and homeostatic hypotheses.
    Sleep regulation models. Homeostatic and restorative hypotheses, circadian factors,REM regulation, tonic and phasic aspects.
    Biological Rhythms: Classifiication of rhythms (Ultradian, circadian, sesonal) and their role on psychological functions, circadian pacemaker, suprachiasmatic nuclei.
     Melatonina. Regulation of melatonin secretion. Seasonal Rhythm. Seasonal Affective Disorder.
    Dreaming : theories  on dreaming functions.Sigmund Freud and psychoanalitic theory of dreaming, Bion, consciounsness and dreaming. 
    Dreaming Psychophysiology.  Hobson and  McCarley activation synthesis model. Dreaming, the neoropsychological approach. 
    Drug effects on sleep and dreaming.
    Mental processes and sleep.Memory, cognition and sleep: Experimental models and theories.
    Sleep Disorders
    Sleep and psychiatryc illnesses: REM sleep and depression; Sleep and circadian rhythm in schizophrenia;Sleep and anxiety disorders. Sleep and Alzheimer.

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