8 Eating And Sleeping Disorders Flashcards

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Night eating syndrome

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Consuming a third or more of daily food intake after the evening meal and getting out of bed at least once during the night to have a high-calorie snack. In the morning, individuals with night eating syndrome are not hungry and do not usually eat breakfast. These individuals do not binge during their night eating and seldom purge.

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Obesity

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An excess of body fat resulting in a body mass index of 30 or more.

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Bariatric surgery

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The surgical approach to extreme obesity, usually accomplished by stapling the stomach to create a small stomach pouch or bypassing the stomach through gastric bypass surgery.

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REM sleep

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The periodic intervals of sleep during which the eyes move rapidly from site to site, and dreams occur, but the bodies inactive.

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Dyssomnias

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A problem in getting to sleep or in obtaining sleep of sufficient quality.

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Parasomnias

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An abnormal behavior such as a nightmare or sleepwalking that occurs during sleep.

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Polysomnographic (PSG) evaluation

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An assessment of sleep disorders in which a client sleeping in the lab is monitored for heart, muscle, respiration, brainwave, and other functions.

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Actigraph

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A small electronic device that is worn on the wrist like a watch and record the body movements. This device can be used to record sleep-wake cycles.

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Sleep efficiency (SE)

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The percentage of time actually spent sleeping of the total time spent in bed.

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Microsleeps

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The short, seconds-long periods of sleep that occurs when someone has been deprived of sleep.

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Primary insomnia

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A difficulty in initiating, maintaining, or gaining from sleep; not related to other medical or psychological problems.

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Rebound insomnia

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In a person with insomnia, the worsen sleep problems that can occur when medications are used to treat insomnia and then withdrawn.

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Hypersomnia

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Abnormally excessive sleep. The person with this condition falls asleep several times a day.

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Narcolepsy

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The sleep disorder involving sudden and irresistible sleep attacks

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Breathing-related sleep disorders

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A sleep disruption leading to excessive sleepiness or insomnia, caused by a breathing problems such as interrupted (sleep apnea) or labor (hyperventilation) breathing.

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Circadian rhythm sleep disorders

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A sleep disturbance resulting in sleepiness or insomnia, caused by the body’s inability to synchronize it sleep patterns with the current pattern of day and night.

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Sleep terror

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An episode of a parent awakening from sleep, accompanied by signs of panic and followed by disorientation Indonesia for the incident. Sleep tears occur during nonrapid eye movement sleep and so do not involved frightening dreams.

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Sleepwalking (somnambulism)

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Parasomnia that involves leaving the bed during nonrapid eye movement sleep.