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AP Psychology 1.5 States of Consciousness. People prone to "sleep attacks" during the day, either randomly or after increased arousal, suffer from what condition?
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- 00:04
And here's your shmoop du jour brought to you by sleep attacks
- 00:07
they're your little brother's favorite kind of friend [Little brother holds pillow beside sleeping brother]
- 00:11
okay here's today's question people prone to sleep attacks during the day
- 00:16
either randomly or after increased arousal suffer from what condition and
- 00:20
here the potential answers really means alright well we know that it
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- 00:26
can sometimes be tempting to drift off when your teacher is knee-deep in a [Boy sleeping in class]
- 00:30
lengthy monotonous lecture but this question is referring to something much
- 00:33
more serious than that imagine falling asleep while driving terrifying right [Man asleep while driving]
- 00:37
that's a real condition but which one is it well insomnia is the sleep disorder
- 00:42
characterized by the difficulty to fall or stay asleep somebody with insomnia
- 00:47
would probably be pretty stoked to receive the occasional sleep attack so
- 00:50
it's not be have a seat REM sleep behavior disorder well those who suffer [Man laying in bed]
- 00:56
from this condition quite literally act out their dreams often moving their
- 01:00
limbs shouting hitting or even punching well [Man hits man while sleeping]
- 01:02
asleep sure it's kind of a sleep attack but not the kind we're looking for so
- 01:06
that eliminates the sleep apnea describes a disorder in which the
- 01:10
sufferer has pauses in breathing or very shallow and infrequent breaths while
- 01:15
asleep the individual will often have no trouble breathing while awake but the [Man reading]
- 01:19
disturbance to their sleep pattern can cause fatigue throughout the day now
- 01:23
like that but his fatigue wouldn't be classified as a sleep attack so we'll
- 01:28
let the ego sleep bruxism which describes the clenching and grinding of [Man grinding teeth while sleeping]
- 01:32
teeth during sleep is one of the most common sleep disorders up to 8% of
- 01:37
adults suffer from it and some studies have shown that nearly a third of
- 01:40
children have been observed doing it by their parents it can cause headaches
- 01:44
damaged teeth jaw pain and joint disorders which are all really terrible
- 01:48
symptoms that we don't recommend but sleep attacks they ain't the answer
- 01:52
we're looking for is a narcolepsy which is characterized by excessive sleepiness
- 01:56
and yes sleep attack now that we enter that question it's time to ask another [Children in classroom]
- 02:00
are yawns actually contagious [Boy yawns in class]
- 02:05
did you catch that
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