Eating & Sleep Disorder Terms Flashcards
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Bulimia Nervosa
An eating disorder involving recurrent episodes of uncontrolled excessive eating followed by compensatory actions to remove the food.
Binge
A relatively brief episode of uncontrolled, excessive consumption, usually of food or alcohol.
Anorexia Nervosa
An eating disorder characterized by recurrent food refusal, leading to dangerously low body weight.
Binge-Eating Disorder BED
A pattern of eating involving distress-inducing binges not followed by purging behaviors; beign considered as a new DSM diagnostic category.
Obesity
An excess of body fat resulting in a body mass index of 30 or more.
Purging Techniques
In the eating disorder bulimia nervosa, the self-induced vomiting or laxative abuse used to compensate for excessive food ingestion.
Night Eating Syndrome
Consuming a third or more of daily food intake after the evening meal and getting out of bed at least once during the night to have a high-calorie snack. In the morning, individuals are not hungry and do not usually eat breakfast. These individuals do not binge during their night eating and seldom purge.
Bariatric Surgery
The surgical approach to extreme obesity, usually accomplished by stapling the stomach to create a small stomach pouch or bypassing the stomack through gastric bypass surgery.
REM Sleep
The periodic intervals of sleep during which the eyes move rapidly from side to side, and dreams occur, but the body is inactive.
Dyssomnias
A problem in getting to sleep or in obtaining sleep of sufficient quality.
Parasomnias
An abnormal behavior such as a nightmare or sleepwalking that occurs during sleep.
Polysomnographic (PSG) Evaluation
An assessment of sleep disorders in which a client sleeping in the lab is monitored for heart, muscle, respiration, brain wave, and other functions.
Actigraph
A small electronic device that is worn on the wrist like a watch and records body movmeents. This device can be used to record sleep-wake cycles
Seelp Efficiency
The percentage of time actualy spent sleeping of the total time spent in bed.
Microsleeps
The short, seconds-long periods of sleep that occurs when someoen has been deprived of sleep.
Primary Insomnia
A difficulty in initiating, maintaining, or gaining from sleep; not related to other medical or psychological problems
Rebound Insomnia
In a person with insomnia, the worsened sleep problems that can occur when medications are used to treat insomnia and then withdrawn.
Hypersomnia
Abnormally excessive sleep.
Sleep apnea
A disorder involving brief periods when breathing ceases during sleep.
Narcolepsy
the sleep disorder involving sudden and irresistible sleep attacks.
Breathing-Related Sleep Disorders
A sleep disruption leading ot excessive sleepiness or insomnia, caused by a breathing problem such as interrupted (sleep apnea) or labored (hypoventilation) breathing.
Circadian Rhythm Sleep Disorders
A sleep disturbance resulting in sleepiness or insomnia, caused by the body’s inability to synchronize its sleep patterns with the current pattern of day and night.
Nightmare
A frightening and anxiety-provoking dream occurring during rapid eye movement sleep. The individual recalls the bad dreamand recovers alrtness and orientation quickly.
Sleep Terror
An episode of apparent awakening from sleep, accompanied by signs of panic and followed by disorientation and amnesia for the incident
