Learning objectives
Upon completion of the training, the student: - Knows chronobiology and chronopsychology with examination of the significance of the 24-hour wake/sleep alternation; knows the studies on sleep quality and sports performance; knows the role of nap in restoring sports decline.
Course unit content
ntroductory 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.
