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What is the medical term meaning condition characterized by frequent brief and uncontrollable bouts of deep sleep sometimes accompanied by hallucinations and an inability to move?
Narcolepsy
What is the Chronic medical condition characterised by extreme fatigue excessive sleepiness and sleep attacks called?
Could be narcolepsy.
What are the major symptoms of narcolepsy?
The major symptoms of narcolepsy include Excessive Daytime Sleepiness (EDS), Cataplexy (a loss of muscle tone as an effect of emotion), and sometimes disturbed nighttime sleep. Persons with Narcolepsy may also experience dreaming while awake (sleep hallucinations), sleep paralysis (a temporary inability to move after waking up), and falling asleep at inappropriate times and in inappropriate situations. Narcolepsy is diagnosed by a Multiple Sleep Latency Test (MSLT).
A syndrome characterized by recurrent uncontrollable seizures of drowsiness and sleep?
Narcolepsy is a disorder of the central nervous system that is characterised by drowsiness and sleep attacks at inappropriate times.
What may be symptoms of narcolepsy?
sleep attacks: short, uncontrollable sleep episodes throughout the day sleep paralysis : a frightening inability to move shortly after awakening or dozing off auditory or visual hallucinations : intense, sometimes terrifying experiences
Is narcolepy different than Narcolepsy?
Usually when people fall asleep they experience 90 minutes of non-REM sleep, followed by REM sleep. People with narcolepsy, enter REM sleep immediately and it occurs during every sleep attack.
What is a sleep disorder consisting of sudden and uncontrollable brief episodes of falling sleep during the day called?
I'm not entirely sure what you mean, but from what I do understand is that it is called insomnia?
Why would a person not be qualified to be in Jury Service?
Unable to move inability to speak inability to write inability to make educated decisions
What are some of the physiological effects of paralysis?
Inability to move.
What inability to move a part or all parts of the body?
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What part of the sleep cycle is narcolepsy associated with?
the deep, dreaming part of sleep known as rapid eye movement (REM) sleep. Normally when people fall asleep, they experience 90 minutes of non-REM sleep, which is then followed by REM sleep. People with narcolepsy, however, enter REM sleep immediately
Among the failures of reconstruction was the inability to?
move black Southerners out of poverty.
