Eating, Sleeping, & Sexual Dysfunction

Question 1

Prolonged refusal to eat adequate amounts of food and an altered perception of what constitutes a normal minimum body weight caused by an intense fear of becoming obese. Primarily affects adolescent females; emaciation and amenorrhea may result.

Answer 1

Anorexia Nervosa

Question 2

Eating disorder in which the individual eats large quantities of food and then purges the body through self-induced vomiting or inappropriate use of laxatives.

Answer 2

Bulimia Nervosa

Question 3

Abnormal activation of physiologic functions during the sleep cycle. Examples include sleep terrors, in which repeated episodes of sudden awakening are accompanied by intense anxiety, agitation, amnesia, and somnambulism.

Answer 3

Parasomnia

Question 4

Indifference or unresponsiveness to sexual stimuli; inability to achieve orgasm during intercourse. Formerly called frigidity.

Answer 4

Hypoactive Sexual Disorder

Question 5

Relentless drive to achieve sexual orgasm in the female. In the male, the condition is called satyriasis.

Answer 5

Nymphomania

Question 6

Inability to enjoy sexual pleasure.

Answer 6

Sexual Anhedonia