PSY 245 Lecture Notes - Lecture 31: Hypersomnia, Sleep Disorder, Stimulus Control
8 Dec 2020
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A sleep disorder characterized by a mismatch between the body"s normal sleep-wake cycle and the demands of the environment. The disruption in normal sleep patterns can lead to insomnia disorder or. For the disorder to be diagnosed, the mismatch must be persistent and severe enough to cause significant levels of distress or to impair the person"s ability to function in social, occupational, or other roles. Sleep disorders involving abnormal behavior patterns associated with partial or incomplete arousals. Non-rapid eye movement sleep arousal disorders occur during non-rem sleep and include the following two subtypes. Most common in children, affecting between 1% and 5% of children, according to some estimates. Between 10% and 30% of children are believed to have had at least one episode of sleepwalking. The prevalence of sleepwalking among adults is unknown, as are its causes. Typically begin with a loud, piercing cry or scream in the night.
