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A 5 page research paper on sleep apnea, which is a sleep disorder in which the person stop breathing over and over again throughout the night without waking up. It causes fatigue, depression and may decrease cognition in children. The writer discusses recent research on sleep apnea from a psychological perspective. Bibliography lists 6 sources.
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and seldom exercises. He castigates himself as "lazy." What do these two people have in common? Both could be suffering from a sleep disorder. Sleep apnea, along with other sleep
disorders, may result in a client complaining of insomnia due to a perception of insufficient sleep (Ruyak, Blisbury and Rajda, 2004). This perception may be associated with adverse daytime functioning,
that is, symptoms of sleep deprivation such as tiredness, irritability, and impairments in memory and concentration (Ruyak, Blisbury and Rajda, 2004). Sleep disturbances may be associated with psychiatric conditions, and
it has been shown that patients with psychiatric disorders frequently complain of disturbed sleep (Ruyak, Blisbury and Rajda, 2004). Since poor quality sleep can directly affect the individual in a
cognitive manner, examination of sleep apnea, as a common sleep disturbance, is applicable to this topic from a psychology-based perspective. Sleep apnea affects roughly 9 percent of middle-aged adults,
with higher percentages in the elderly population (Bardwell, et al, 2003). Population-based studies have estimated that roughly 4 percent of men and 2 percent of women between the ages of
30 and 60 have obstructive sleep apnea that is severe enough to cause daytime somnolence (Zepf, 2003). However, despite its prevalence, the condition typically goes undiagnosed because of its non-specific
symptoms (Zepf, 2003). The "gold standard" for diagnosing sleep apnea is to use polysomnography in a sleep laboratory (Zepf, 2003). Patients with obstructive sleep apnea have multiple instances where
the airway collapses and breathing stops. This can occur as many as 100 times in a single hour in severe cases, without resulting in the individual waking up (Bardwell, et
al, 2003). Having more than 30 events per hour is generally considered to denote a degree of severity that requires treatment (Zepf, 2003). Sleep apnea can be treated by using
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