Exam 9: Eating Disorders and Sleep-Wake Disorders

______ involves repeated episodes of acting out one's dreams during REM sleep in the form of vocalizing parts of the dream or thrashing about.

Hayley suffers from recurrent episodes of gorging on large quantities of food followed by purging through self-induced vomiting in order to prevent gaining weight. Although her Weight is normal, and her ideal weight is relatively normal, she worries excessively about Looking or becoming fat. She is suffering from ______.

Polysomnographic recording is used to help diagnose ______.

Bous, the Greek word which is the root for bulimia, means ______.

Which of the following people is at lowest risk of being obese?

The absence or suppression of menstruation is called ______.

About ______ of Americans are overweight.

The most common method of treating sleep disorders in the United States is through ______.

You meet a slender girl with a yellow hue to her rather dry, cracking skin; she has fine, downy hair. With this appearance, you suspect that she may have ______.

Studies of twins have found ______ for a genetic component to anorexia nervosa and ______ for a genetic component to bulimia nervosa.

The development of chronic insomnia is best explained by principles of ______.

Research has found that when used for the short-term treatment of insomnia, sleep medications do which of the following?

A sleep disorder characterized by chronic or persistent insomnia, not caused by another psychological or physical disorder or by the effects of drugs or medication, is ______.

After Santa Claus, the character recognized by most children is ______.

What factors contribute to the imbalance between energy intake and expenditure that underlies obesity?

Which of the following is true of circadian rhythm sleep-wake disorder?

Cardiac problem with anorexia can include high blood pressure.

People with narcolepsy go immediately into ______ sleep during a narcoleptic attack.

People with obstructive sleep apnea repeatedly fall asleep without warning.

Obesity has become a national epidemic.