PSYCH 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Sleep Paralysis, Muscle Tone, Somniloquy
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Narcolepsy extreme daytime sleepiness and sudden, uncontrollable sleep attacks: cataplexy a sudden loss of muscle tone often triggered by excitement and other strong emotions, genetic predisposition, no cure, can manage it with medicine. Rem-sleep behavior disorder (rbd) loss of muscle tone that causes normal rem- sleep paralysis is absent: generally older people and men; can be a side effect of alcohol or substance abuse. Sleepwalking: occurs during stages 3-4 sleep, do not retain memory of event, occurs in 10-30% of children but 5% adults. Somniloquy sleep talking: can be hereditary, less common in adults. Night terrors frightening dreams that arouse sleeper to near-panic state: common stages 3-4, more intense than nightmare, do not remember events afterward, 6% children, 1-2% adults. Sleep apnea people repeatedly stop and restart breathing during sleep: mistaken for snoring, causes fatigue, could cause increase in blood pressure, often overweight/middle-aged men.
