Sleep Disturbances

Question 1

What is a Dyssomnia?

Answer 1

a sleep disorder with difficulty initiating/maintaining and/or timing sleep

results in a problem either falling asleep, staying asleep and/or excessive sleepiness

this makes the person suffer fromchanges in quantity and quality of their sleep

Question 2

What is a Parasomnia?

Answer 2

sleep disorders where physiological and/or psychological activity occurs during sleep or transitions between waking/sleeping

abnormal sleep-related events, such as sleep walking, teeth grinding and terrifying dreams

This activity may occur in REM and NREM sleep stages

Question 3

What is sleep onset dyssomnia

Answer 3

Insomnia is a sleep disorder that typically involves persistent difficulty initiating or maintaining sleep

It takes a long time to fall asleep, but the person can usually sleep through the night once sleep starts

Question 4

What is Sonnambulism?

Answer 4

Sleep walking

involves getting up from bed and walking about or performing other behaviours while asleep, usually occurs during NREM stages 3 and 4

Most sleep walkers typically engage in activities that are of low complexity

episodes may occur up to 3-4times a week and usually last around a few minutes