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Mrs. Marsh
Psychological Disorders
Unit 12: Abnormal Psychology
Recurring problems in falling or staying asleep.
Associated Features
It is not an occasional inability to sleep when anxious or excited.
Chronic or persistent difficulty with sleeping:Trouble falling asleep.Frequent awakening.Getting a full night’s sleep but not feeling rested.
Poor Treatment
Many mistakenly try to treat the problems using sleeping pills or alcohol.These tactics reduce REM sleep, leaving people
feeling groggy and tired the next day.
TreatmentExercise.Avoid caffeine and rich food in the afternoon or
before bedtime.Drink milk before bed to generate serotonin.Relax before bed, use dim light.Sleep on a regular schedule.Hide the clock.Manage your stress levels.
A sleep disorder characterized by uncontrollable sleep attacks; the sufferer may lapse directly into REM sleep, often at inopportune times.
narco = numbnesslepsy = seizure
Associated FeaturesOverwhelmed with sleepiness; collapses into
REM sleep.Release of muscular tension.“Attacks” usually lasts less than 5 minutes
Some lasting between 10-20 minutes
Associated Features“Attacks” sometimes occur at inopportune
times:For example
After taking a terrific swing in baseball.When laughing loudly.When shouting angrily.During sex.
EtiologyResearch has been discovering that the
disorder is a brain disease.Genes may play a role.Absence of a hypothalamic neural center that
produces orexin (a neurotransmitter associated with alertness).
TreatmentMedication
Hope of treating the disorder with a drug that mimics the missing orexin.
Insomnia
Affects 10% of adults and 25% of older adults.
Narcolepsy
1 in 2000 (0.05%)