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AP Psychology 2.5 States of Consciousness. Sleep apnea may be treated as which of the following?

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And here's your shmoop du jour brought to you by sleep disorders and [Boy sleeping at a desk]

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coffee which go together like final exams and coffee or red-eye flights and

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coffee or newborn babies and coffee we just really think coffee goes with [Man dragging luggage with coffee]

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pretty much everything.. sleep apnea may be treated by which of

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the following and here are the potential answers.....

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sleep apnea is a sleep disorder in which the sufferer is breathing either [Man breathing heavily while sleeping]

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repeatedly stops and starts or becomes extremely shallow during sleep it can

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potentially lead to serious complications including serious fatigue,

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high blood pressure, heart problems, liver problems or even type-2 diabetes or can

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just make the person nor very very very loudly bearing all that in mind we can [Man sleeping and woman throws pillow at him]

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easily see why night terrors aren't going to be a treatment method for such

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a disorder because it doesn't make a whole lot of sense, goodbye E.. it's also

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hard to imagine how the use of psychedelic drugs, drugs like LSD and

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peyote that can cause serious hallucinations would help with sleep [Boy riding unicorn across a rainbow]

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apnea and stimulus or uppers like cocaine and caffeine wouldn't help because

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their psychoactive meaning they affect brain function and while some stimulants

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are used as medicine like for treating ADHD since sleep apnea is a problem of [Windpipe highlighted]

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the windpipe these aren't likely to do any good either

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what about somnambulism..sounds

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fancy complicated and maybe medicine huh well it comes from the Latin somnus

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meaning sleep and ambulator meaning to walk so it's really just a fancy word [Girl sleep walking]

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for sleepwalking and while standing and walking around could potentially help

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open up the windpipe of a sleeping individual we'd be hard-pressed to figure

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out how a doctor would prescribe sleepwalking cross out A perhaps a bit

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surprisingly weight loss is the prescribed answer of today.. One of the

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most common causes of sleep apnea is being overweight that's fat deposits [Man eating hot dogs]

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around the airway can obstruct regular breathing

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losing weight would definitely help remedy the situation assuming this is

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the actual cause could also be aliens... [Man drops down from alien spaceship]

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