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Taking An Inventory of Your Sleep Habits
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Can Poor Sleep Affect Your Weight?
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What's Keeping You Up?
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What Can You Do About Insomnia?
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Sleep and Heart Disease: What's the Link?
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Why Can't You Sleep?: Understanding Sleep Problems
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KEY TERMS
Biofeedback—A training technique that enables an individual to gain some element of control over involuntary body functions.
Mood disorder—A group of mental disorders involving a disturbance of mood, along with either a full or partial excessively happy (manic) or extremely sad (depressive) syndrome not caused by any other physical or mental disorder. Mood refers to a prolonged emotion.
Sleep apnea—A condition in which a person stops breathing while asleep. These periods can last up to a minute or more, and can occur many times each hour. In order to start breathing again, the person must become semi-awake. The episodes are not remembered, but the following day the client feels tired and sleepy. If severe, sleep apnea can cause other medical problems.
Sleep disorder—Any condition that interferes with sleep. At least 84 have been identified, according to the American Sleep Disorders Association.
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Author Info: Donald G. Barstow RN, The Gale Group Inc., Gale, Detroit, Gale Encyclopedia of Medicine, 2002 |
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