APPENDIX A Flashcards
Dissatisfaction with sleep quantity or quality. The person has difficulty falling asleep, maintaining sleep, and or early morning wakening with the inability to return to sleep.
insomia
engaging behaviors not conducive to sleep or interfering directly with sleep. Included are consuming caffeine or nicotine efore bed time.
Inadequate sleep hygiene
involves conditioned arousal associated with the thought of sleep. It is often associated with stress and anxiety. Characteristics including excessive worry about sleep problems, trying too hard to sleep, rumination, increase muscle tension, and other anxiety symptoms
psychophysiological insomnia
when the individual thinks they are awake or are not sleeping even though brain wave activity is consistent with normal sleep.
paradoxical insomnia
when the child must have specific stimulation, objects, or setting for falling asleep, or returning to sleep. Without limits, can lead to bedtime stalling or refusal
behavioral insomnia of childhood
a lifelong inability to obtain adequate sleep. It is thought to be a neurological deficit in the sleep-wake cycle and is, therefore, chronic and lifelong.
Idiopathic insomnia
primary treatment of the underlying cause is helpful but may no eliminate the insomnia altogether.
Insomnia due to a mental disorder, medical condition, or drug or substance use
excessive sleepiness for at least 1 month that involves either prolonged sleep episodes or daily daytime sleeping that causes significant distress or impairment in functioning. Major sleep episodes may be 8 to 12 hours long, and the person unrefreshed upon awekening.
hypersomnolence disorder
chronic excessive sleepiness characterized by repeated, irresistible sleep attacks. After sleeping 10 to 20 minutes, the person is briefly refreshed until the nec=xt sleep attack.
narcolepsy
medication or narcolepsy
modafinil
