Biological Psychology

This is a continuation of the previous article on Consciousness and Sleep. There are physical and psychiatric conditions that are manifested in working with the areas of consciousness and sleep. Counselors mainly just listen to the clients who present tense at the beginning of counseling and their disorders are diagnosable in 4% of the population that suffer from excessive sleepiness and follows the 'PSQI'(Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index) for sleep patterns not universal.

Disorders of Sleep

Some of the disorders dealing in this area are dealing with disturbance initiation and maintaining proper sleep patterns. Insomnia is the inability to stay asleep or fall asleep that increases stress for the next day and even for the next night's sleep. Trepination will become cyclical and people will use various sources to get to sleep. All ways may be made worse of using sleep medications that will make problems worse. There are complex cycles of functions and disorders that are hard to treat like primary insomnia that is a characteristic of disease.

There are indirect education treatments like relaxation skills that could help. Another disorder is one known as Apnea breathing disorders may occur with primary treatment in reducing medications, setting and learning regular sleep techniques along with relaxation skills. Self-hypnosis and meditation could also be used.

DEOS disorders deal with excessive sleepiness and they are: Narcolepsy there is an attack of sleep and it seems irresistible just let happen wherever, but can lead to a lot of issues like driving and safety for it is equivalent to epileptic events and can occur in a matter of seconds where vivid hallucinations may occur. Treatment varies with this disorder. There is also parasomibus or sleepwalking, sleeptalking and even Night terrors. These are usually exhibited by young people and peeks during adolescence and disappears in adults and older people. N_REM occurs when behaviors are extremely complicated. Medications can cause these and may occur in adulthood with extreme cases with stressful moments. Sleepwalking and talking are most common that is usually talking that is nonmeaningful words. Younger children experience night terrors during N-REM stages that are very intense and short in early adolesence that is connected to depression or symptoms of disordered sleep that is common in a depressed mood along with a loss of appetite with no sense of pleasure along with withdrawal and isolation from people. There is also loss of energy and creativity and with long term depression connections. The first REM sleep is when someone taking medications for depression and their anti-depressant is still working but when it wears off stages 3 and 4 periods are reduced.

Sleep Therapy is where therapists wake people up during REM sleep to try to recover from depression and described by a set of symptoms. There is the medical model that is used the same as in TB and Cancer needs and a medical doctor is used to deduce these sets of symptoms to a condition as a cause then treat the symptoms and you treat the cause. Depression and its set of symptoms and the condition may have several causes and may be complex given the medication to start six to eight weeks that will start to work. Several medication trials for differential diagnoses of depression are that interactions may have shallow sleep and not enter stages 3 and 4 and enter REM earlier. Most anti-depressants suppress sleep. Families of depressions have long periods of sleep and show abnormalities of sleep. Sleep interventions may get and show improvements in 5 to 6 weeks in 2 to 3 different ways. Sleep treatments could have disruptive side effects like restless legs that come along with stress and age, but there are differences with each developmental level.

(This is the end of the lesson on Consciousness and Sleep. Any comments or tips would be greatly appreciated.)

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