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Variations in Consciousness Flashcards

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Alcohol

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  • Drinks containing ethyl alcohol
  • Most widely abused drug with the most recorded accidents and fatalities
  • Creates sense of euphoria and temporary boost in self-esteem, decreased inhibitions
  • Severe mental and motor impairments, mood swings
  • Binge drinking
  • Moderate risk of dependence
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Amphetamines

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  • Stimulant
  • Increases CNS and behavioural activity
  • Creates sense of euphoria, increased alertness, elated, energetic mood
  • Side effects vary with potency and dosage (restlessness, anxiety, paranoia, insomnia are normal)
  • Works on two monoamine neurotransmitters: norepinephrine (NE) and dopamine (DA)
  • Increases release
  • Influences NE and DA reuptake
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Ascending Reticular Activating System (ARAS)

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  • Influences sleep and awareness (physiological arousal)

- Consists of afferent fibres that run through the reticular formation (structure key to sleep and wakefulness)

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Barbiturates

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  • Sedative
  • ie. Seconal
  • Withdrawal can produce fever, chills, tremors, convulsions, vomiting etc.
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Biological Rhythms

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  • Fluctuation patterns in physiology
  • Contributes to patterns of sleep and wakefulness
  • ”Biological Clock”
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Cannabis

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  • Hemp plant that THC, marijuana and hashish are derived from
  • Smoke or eat it
  • Increases sensory awareness and creates sense of euphoria
  • Anxiety, sluggishness and impaired memory
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Circadian Rhythms

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  • 24 hour biological cycle
  • Responsible for sleep cycles, hormone fluctuations, urine production etc.
  • Influences body temperature (dropping body temperature = sleep, rising = waking)
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Cocaine

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  • Stimulant
  • Snorting, “freebasing”
  • Works on Norepinephrine (NE) and Dopamine (DA)
  • Blocks NE, DA and serotonin reuptake at synapses
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Consciousness

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  • Awareness of both internal and external stimuli

- Influenced by biological rhythms

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Day Residue

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  • Sigmund Freud

- Unresolved thoughts or conflicts throughout the day will seep into dreams as ‘day residue’

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Dissociation

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  • Ability to separate perception, memory and identity from stream of consciousness
  • Hypnosis may create dissociation in the conscious
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Electroencephalograph (EEG)

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  • Monitors electrical activity in the brain using electrodes
  • Brainwaves vary in amplitude (height) and frequency (cycles per second / cps)
  • Four principle bands:

–Beta
=13-24 cps
=used in problem solving

–Alpha
=8-12 cps
=used in meditation, relaxation

–Theta
=4-7 cps
=used in light sleep

–Delta
=>4 cps
=used in deep sleep

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Electromyograph (EMG)

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  • Records muscular activity

- Used to record and study sleep

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Electrooculograph (EOG)

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  • Records eye movement

- Used to record and study sleep

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Hallucinogens

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  • LSD, psilocybin, DMT etc.
  • Alters sensory perceptions
  • Creates euphoria, dream-like states, increases sensory awareness
  • Anxiety, disorganized thought and impaired judgement
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Hypnic Jerk

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  • Muscular contractions that occur as people fall asleep

- Occurs in stage 1 of sleep

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Hypnosis

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  • Used for psychological and physiological treatments, as well as entertainment
  • Procedure that creates an increased state of suggestibility
  • Responsiveness to hypnosis is a measurable trait
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Insomnia

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  • Consistent, inadequate sleep
  • Trouble falling and staying asleep, as well as early wakening
  • Most common sleep disorder
  • Hyperarousal Model of Insomnia: insomniacs exhibit increased physiological arousal
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Latent Content

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  • Sigmund Freud

- Hidden meaning behind a dream

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LSD

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  • Hallucinogen
  • “Acid”
  • Taken orally
  • Controversial studies, banned in America in 1966
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Lucid Dreams

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  • Realization that one is dreaming, seen with an increase in control over the dream
  • Has potential for therapeutic purposes
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Manifest Content

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  • Sigmund Freud

- Literal meaning of the dream

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MDMA

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  • Own class of drug related to amphetamines and hallucinogens
  • Causes subtle, long term effects in mental functioning
  • Creates euphoric, energetic, friendly mood
  • Effects can spill over to the next day as depression
  • Overheating, increase in blood pressure, anxiety, restlessness etc.
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Meditation

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-Procedures that increase attention and focus awareness

  • Focused Attention Meditation: brings attention to specific object, feeling etc.
    • ie. TM
  • Open Monitoring Meditation: allows one to become an observer of ones actions, feelings, thoughts etc. in a nonjudgmental way
    • ie. Mindfulness meditation
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Melatonin

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-Hormone that is released upon exposure to light that resets the circadian rhythm

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Mesolimbic Dopamine Pathway

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  • Believed to be how most drugs exert their effects
  • “Reward pathway”
  • Large, rapid releases of dopamine reinforce the effects of drugs
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Mind Wandering

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-Thoughts that come and go from the brain that are unrelated to the task at hand

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Monoamines

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-Norepinephrine and dopamine

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Narcolepsy

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  • Sleep disorder

- One switches directly from wakefulness to REM sleep for about 15 minutes without warning

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Narcotics

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  • Painkilling drugs derived from opium
  • High risk of overdose
  • Creates euphoria
  • Nausea, lethargy, impaired mental and motor functioning
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Neurogenesis

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  • Creation of new brain cells

- Enhances learning and memory consolidation

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Night Terrors

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  • Sleep disorder
  • Sudden waking from sleep with a shriek and an upright bolt
  • Sufferer will not remember a dream, but a negative feeling
  • Easy to fall back asleep
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Nightmares

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  • Sleep disorder
  • Normally seen in children
  • Nightmares have similar themes in many people
  • Anxiety-inducing and hard to fall back asleep afterwords
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Non-REM Sleep

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-4 stages:

–Stage 1: Theta waves, light sleep, hypnic jerks

–Stage 2: Sleep spindles

–Slow-Wave Sleep: Stage 3 and 4, delta waves

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Norepinephrine (NE)

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  • Monoamine neurotransmitter

- Affected by stimulants

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Opiates

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-Narcotics

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Psuedoinsomnia

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  • Feeling that one is getting inadequate sleep

- EEG scans show that sleep patterns are normal and fine

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Physical Dependence

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  • Physical withdrawal symptoms must be avoided by taking the drug
  • Withdrawal symptoms vary with the type of drug
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Psychoactive Drugs

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-Drugs that alter mental, emotional or behavioural functioning

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Psychological Dependence

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-Drugs must be taken to satisfy intense emotional and mental cravings

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Rebound Insomnia

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-Worsening of insomnia upon ending drug treatment

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REM Sleep

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  • Rapid Eye Movement Sleep
  • Important for memory consolidation
  • Most vivid dreams occur in this stage
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Sedatives

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  • Sleeping pills, barbiturates
  • High risk for addiction, abuse and overdose
  • Benzos: developed to reduce anxiety
  • Non-Benzos: developed to reduce sleep problems
  • Useful in the short term
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Sleep Apnea

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  • Sleep disorder

- Breathing stops consistently throughout the night, interrupting sleep

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Sleep Spindles

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  • Bursts of high frequency brain waves

- Occurs in stage 2 of sleep

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Slow-Wave Sleep (SWS)

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  • Takes up stages 3 and 4 of sleep
  • Delta waves
  • Takes about 30m to reach SWS, SWS then occurs for about another 30m before the cycle reverses
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Somnambulism

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  • Sleep walking

- Genetic Predisposition

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Suprachiasmatic Nucleus (SCN)

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  • Located in the hypothalamus
  • Triggered by light responses in the retina
  • Sends signals to the pineal gland to release melatonin
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Synergy

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  • Interaction of two or more substances to produce greater effects
  • ie. Alcohol and marijuana increase impairment of motor and mental functioning
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Tolerance

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  • How accustomed one has become to the effects of a drug
  • Over time, higher and higher doses are needed to produce the same effect
  • Risk of overdose increases with tolerance, as changes in drug administration patterns occur, playing with the gained tolerance
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Ultraradian Rhythm

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  • Cycle that is repeated multiple times a day

- Longer than an hour, shorter than 24 hours

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