Hypersomnia

Neurological System Case Study A thirty-five-year-old male is admitted to a hospital following a minor car accident. He was driving home and fell asleep at the wheel. This is the third accident he has had in the past year. He also falls asleep regularly at work, at the dinner table, at church, and, in fact, anywhere. When he becomes excited or enraged, he suddenly becomes weak and falls. At night, he often has bizarre, terrifying dreams. During these dreams, he feels as if he were paralyzed. Based

Typical presenting symptoms in older adults are weakness, insomnia, hypersomnia, headache, fatigue, irritability, chronic constipation, pain, agitation, and unintentional weight loss/change. Dementia and Delirium are also known to have higher rates of depression in older adults. The Geriatric Depression Scale, Cornell Scale

The number of hours of sleep each person needs depends on many factors, including age. Infants need nearly 16 hours a day, while teenagers require about 8-9 hours on average. For most adults, 7 to 8 hours a night appears to be the best amount of sleep. Women in the first three months of pregnancy often need several more hours of sleep than usual. The quantity of rest a person needs also improves if he or she has been deprived of sleep in previous days. Getting too little sleep creates a "sleep debt

Harriet Tubman was born in slavery. She was born in 1822, Dorchester county, MD. she died on March 10, 1913, Auburn NY. In 1849, Tubman escaped to Philadelphia, then immediately returned to maryland to rescue her family. Harriet Tubman freed her family from slavery. Harriet Tubman freed her family from slavery. Harriet Tubman escaped slavery to become a leading abolitionist. She led hundreds of enslaved people to freedom along the route of the Underground Railroad. Harriet Tubman escaped

Draft 2.1 Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD), is defined as “a cyclic illness characterized by recurrent episodes of fall/winter depression alternating with periods of spring/summer euthymia (norma l mood) or hypomania (mild elation and behavioral activation)” (2). There has been much research done to support the SAD and to find effective treatments for the annual malady such as bright light therapy. SAD generally occurs in the winter months, beginning around November and ending around March. People

I would diagnose Ellyn Waters with Bipolar II, with the specifier of atypical features. Even though Ellyn has displayed mostly depressive symptoms, she has reported periods of elevated mood, racing thoughts, and the decreased need for sleep for several months that would qualify as hypomanic episodes. Ellyn meets Criterion A in the DSM-5 (American Psychiatric Association, 2013) for a hypomanic episode in that her hypomanic symptoms have occurred for a period longer than one week; Ellyn described her

She was disabled with her epilepsy and hypersomnia so they had no reason to think she could lead dozens of people out of slavery. Instead they suspected that the person behind it was a white abolitionist from the North named John Brown (Clinton 91). Harriet, along with the fugitives she guided

PS124: Introduction To Psychology Prof: James Moskalewicz Kaplan University Aug. 12, 2014 By: Heather Leigh Bradley Case Study 2  Sylvia is 28 years old, stay-at-home mother raising two small children with her husband, who travels frequently for his work. Sylvia finds herself feeling bored and isolated a lot of the time. She finds herself overeating and then feeling bad about her weight gain. She has trouble sleeping at night and takes frequent naps during the day. She has persistent

Andrew Coogan, Alison Baird, Aurel Popa-Wagner and Johannes Thome are the authors of the article, “Circadian rhythms and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder: The what, the when and the why.” They stated that the main features of Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is impulsivity, inattention and hyperactivity. However, they also discussed those children that have trouble sleeping could also be a result for most of the symptoms for the Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD)

With 73% of children presenting with depression, they also suffer with either insomnia or hypersomnia. Children with sleeping disturbance showed higher levels of depression and were more likely to have a anxiety disorder compared to children without sleep disturbances. These studies support strongly the correlation between sleep and affective disorders