Sleep Disorders

What is Insomnia?

• Act out dreams
• Trouble Sleeping
• walking around constantly
• loud snoring

When a victim of narcolepsy suffers an attack they fall directly into:

• REM sleep
• NREM 1
• NREM 3
• it is unknown at this time

Repeated periods during sleep when a person stops breathing for 10 seconds or longer is known as:

• Sleep apnea
• Narcolepsy
• Sleep agnosia
• Cataplexy

A sleep disorder characterized by difficulty in falling asleep or remaining asleep is called:

• Sleepiness
• Insomnia
• Sleep apnea
• Narcolepsy

Joe has a tendency to suddenly fall asleep at inappropriate times, sometimes collapsing.  Upon waking he frequently remembers dreaming.

• somnambulism
• night terrors
• narcolepsy
• hypersomnia

Hank often feels tired during the day.  His wife says that he snores loudly each night & sometimes sounds as though he is choking.  Hank has no recollection of these events.

• narcolepsy
• REM sleep behavior disorder
• night terrors
• sleep apnea

Ali often engages in violent behaviors while asleep. He punches, kicks & sometimes shouts. Upon waking he recalls dreams & describes them in great detail.

• REM sleep behavior disorder

• night terrors

• sleep apnea

• Kliene Levin syndrome

While asleep, Ijan sometimes sits up in bed & thrashes about wildly, screaming. During these episodes his heart races & he sweats profusely. Upon waking he doesn’t remember what has happened.

• REM sleep behavior disorder

• sleep apnea

• somnambulism

• night terrors