Inglese

Sonno e ritmi circadiani

Textbook :
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.

Conoscenza dei meccanismi di regolazione del sonno e dei ritmi circadiani. Applicazioni fisiologiche e cliniche

Lezioni frontali, esercitazioni laboratorio

Esame orale

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

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.

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