Exam 8: Feeding and Eating Disorders and Sleep-Wake Disorders

Women with bulimia tend to be ________.

About ________ % of those receiving psychological treatments for insomnia become good sleepers.

Narcoleptic attacks can occur without warning.

The most common method of treating sleep disorders in Canada is through ________.

________ involves recurrent awakenings from sleep because of frightening dreams.

The medical complications of bulimia mainly stem from the effects of __________.

Chronic insomnia is LEAST likely to affect which of the following people?

The mortality rate for sufferers of anorexia is about ________ % over an eight-year period.

Eating disorders are often accompanied by all of the following EXCEPT __________ disorders.

Sleep terror disorder affects more ________ than ________ and is usually outgrown during ________.

More adult females than males are affected by sleep terror disorder.

When people with narcolepsy have an attack,they typically remain asleep for an average period of 1-5 minutes.

Some bulimic women become so concerned about possible weight gain that they resort to vomiting after _____ meal.

Describe the features of nightmare disorder.

Gourmand syndrome is an eating disorder that is linked to damage of the right hemisphere of the brain.

Regular use of drugs such as benzodiazepines to combat insomnia lead to ________.

To eliminate self-induced vomiting,therapists may use the behavioural technique of exposure with response prevention that was developed for treatment of people with obsessive-compulsive disorder.

There are ________ general subtypes of anorexia.

Disturbed menstrual function is found in as many as _____ % of normal-weight women with bulimia.

People with ________ have difficulty falling asleep or remaining asleep,or achieving restorative sleep.