Learning objectives
The course intends to offer a synthetic and adjourned panorama of the actual knowledge in the field of chronobiology and chronopsychology. In a chronopsychology perspectives it will be examined the meaning of the wake/sleep alternation within the 24 hours.
Fundamental concepts will be introduced for being able to correctly appraise disorders tied up to alterations of the sleep/wake cycle.
Prerequisites
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Course unit content
Introductory notes - Theories related to the functions of sleep. Review on the beliefs and theories around the nature and the meaning of the dreaming.
Methods of search - Techniques of study of the sleep. Techniques of study of the dream.
Physiological aspects - The sleep onset process. The awakening process. Two types of sleep: NREM and REM. Need of sleep.
Chronobiology - Classification of the rhythms: infradian, circadian, ultradian. Chronobiological model of sleep regulation.
Clinical aspects - Classification of the sleep disorder. Chronobiological aspects in clinical psychology.
Applied Chronopsychology - Protocols of chronopsychological intervention in physical exercise.
Full programme
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Bibliography
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Teaching methods
Traditional didactics.
Assessment methods and criteria
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