Question

Consuela stands in front of her American History class to give a presentation. She suddenly loses consciousness and suffers a ""sleep attack"" referred to as ____.

Answer 1

Answer:

The options

A. dyspnea

B. Ataxia

C. cataplexy

D. narcolepsy

Our ANSWER IS D.

D. narcolepsy

Explanation:

It is a chronic sleep disorder which leads to excessive daylight drowsiness.

It may be due to a genetic factor and unusual signal being released in the brain as a result of absence of the brain chemical called hypocretin/orexin, which controls sleep. It is often seen as the effect of the immune system erroneously working against the production of hypocretin in thr brain.

It results in unexpected attacks of sleep, abrupt loss of muscle tone and hallucinations.