chapter 8
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 bulimia nervosa | eating disorder involving recurrent episodes of uncontrolled excessive (Binge) eating followed by compensatory actions to remove the food (for example, deliberate vomiting, laxative abuse, and excessive exercise). |
| binge | Relatively brief episode of uncontrolled, excessive consumption, usually of food or alcohol. |
| anorexia nervosa | Eating disorder characterized by recurrent food refusal, leading to dangerously low body weight. |
| obesity | excess of body fat resulting in a body mass index (a ratio of weight to height) of 30 or more. |
| purging technique | In the eating disorder bulimia nervosa, the self- induced vomiting or laxative abuse used to compensate for excessive food ingestion. |
| binge-eating disorder (BED) | Pattern of eating involving distress-inducing binges not followed by purging behaviors; being considered as a new DSM diagnostic category. |
| night eating syndrome | Consuming a third or more of daily food intake after the evening meal and getting out of bed at least once during the night to have a high-calorie snack. In the morning, however, individuals with this are not hungry and do not usually eat breakfast. They do not binge during night eating and seldom purge. |
| bariatric surgery | Surgical approach to extreme obesity, usually accomplished by stapling the stomach to create a small stomach pouch or bypassing the stomach through gastric bypass surgery. |
| rapid eye movement (REM) sleep | Periodic intervals of sleep during which the eyes move rapidly from side to side, and dreams occur, but the body is inactive. |
| dyssomnia | problem in getting to sleep or in obtaining sleep of sufficient quality. |
| parasomnia | abnormal behavior such as a nightmare or sleepwalking that occurs during sleep. |
| polysomnographic (PSG) evaluation | Assessment of sleep disorders in which a client sleeping in the lab is monitored for heart, muscle, respiration, brain wave, and other functions. |
| actigraph | Small electronic device that is worn on the wrist like a watch and records body movements. This device can be used to record sleep-wake cycles. |
| sleep efficiency (SE) | Percentage of time actually spent sleeping of the total time spent in bed. |
| microsleep | short, seconds long period of sleep that occurs when someone has been deprived of sleep. |
| primary insomnia | Difficulty in initiating, maintaining, or gaining from sleep; not related to other medical or psychological problems. |
| rebound insomnia | In a person with insomnia, the worsened sleep problems that can occur when medications are used to treat insomnia and then withdrawn. |
| hypersomnia | Abnormally excessive sleep. A person with this condition will fall asleep several times a day. |
| narcolepsy | sleep disorder involving sudden and irresistible sleep attacks. |
| breathing-related sleep disorder | Sleep disruption leading to excessive sleepiness or insomnia, caused by a breathing problem such as interrupted (sleep apnea) or labored (hypoventilation) breathing. |
| sleep apnea | Disorder involving brief periods when breathing ceases during sleep. |
| circadian rhythm sleep disorder | Sleep disturbance resulting in sleepiness or insomnia, caused by the body's inability to synchronize its sleep patterns with the current pattern of day and night. |
| nightmare | Frightening and anxiety-provoking dream occurring during rapid eye movement sleep. The individual recalls the bad dream and recovers alertness and orientation = quickly. |
| sleep terror | Episode of apparent awakening from sleep, accompanied by signs of panic and followed by disorientation and amnesia for the incident. Sleep terrors occur during nonrapid eye movement sleep and so do not involve frightening dreams. |
| sleepwalking | Parasomnia that involves leaving the bed during nonrapid eye movement sleep. |
| somnambulsim | Repeated sleepwalking that occurs during nonrapid eye movement sleep and so is not the acting put of a dream. The person is difficult to waken and does not recall the experience. |
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