Selected Topics of Biopsychological Studies

Week 10
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Selected Topics of Biopsychological Studies
Scenario: End of a Shift
Christy gets the medication back up to the third floor. She takes over the rigged ventilator and Carmela goes to check on the other patients and give them their medication. Exhausted, Christy struggles to stay awake and keep pumping the ventilator. Sleep keeps trying to claim her and it takes more and more effort to keep moving.
A whir and snap is followed by the lights coming up back on. The ventilator starts to purr on its own. Christy stares at it, unsure how to undo Carmela’s fix or if it’s safe to stop pumping.
“It’s fine,” Carmela says from the doorway. “You can stop now.”
Christy stops and looks around.
“Everything’s good. You can take a break,” Carmela says. “We both can. How do you feel about staying on? I doubt either of our relief will show.”
Christy looks at the clock, and sure enough, her shift is over.
“I’ll stay,” Christy says. “Someone needs to be here.”
This week we learn about sleep and consciousness. As you read the textbook, think about Christy’s story. Why does physical exertion make people sleepy? Think about your own sleep and wake cycleshow does the brain affect your sleep?
Discussion Overview
Using your readings and other resources, create your post on Yellowdig related to what caught your attention, and read and comment on your classmates’ posts. Be sure to choose a different conversation starter to focus on this week.
What You Need to Know
Sleep, Consciousness, and Movement
The chapters below will help you explore topics in biopsychology like sleep and consciousness, and the sense of pain. Use your Brain and Behavior: An Introduction to Behavioral Neuroscience text to complete the following:
Read Chapter 11, “The Body Sense and Movement,” pages 312344. In this chapter, you will learn how several brain structures work together to produce movement.
Read Chapter 15, “Sleep and Consciousness,” pages 446480. In this chapter, the author reviews sleep disorders and what causes them.
Use the Capella library to complete the following:
Koch, C., & Greenfield, S. (2007). How does consciousness happen? Scientific American, 297(4), 7683.
Write Your Discussion Post
Please post something to the discussion board related to the content we are looking at this week. For each post, be succinct (use no more than 75 words) and professional. Feel free to explore the features of Yellowdig, such as your ability to embed videos and pictures, create polls, use hashtags, love or like a post, and so on.
Here are some ideas for your post to get you started:
Find a short video related to this weeks assigned readings. Share the link to your source and a short summary of the source. Include why you found the resource helpful to your understanding.
Find an article related to your readings this week in the popular press (such as the New York Times, CNN, or Psychology Today). Share a link to your source and a short summary of the source. Discuss why this made the news and why it is important.
Discuss what courses you are enrolled in next term and how what you learned in this class can help you next term.
Do the following when writing your post:
Do not create your post as a reply to this pinned post. Instead, use Yellowdig’s Create option to create a new post.
Label your post with the hashtag for the week (#Week 1) so that others can sort posts by the weeks topic.
For help using Yellowdig, please see Using Yellowdig [PDF] or Grading in Yellowdig [PDF]. Or visit Yellowdig Forums, Capella’s Campus support page for Yellowdig, with links for technical support.

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