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Test your knowledge of sleep
Yesavage Geriatric Depression Scale
  

What do you know about sleep?

These ten questions test what you know about sleep.

1. Sleep is a time when your body and brain shut down for rest and relaxation.
True
False


2. If you regularly doze off unintentionally during the day, you may need more than just a good night's sleep.
True
false


3. If you snore loudly and persistently at night and are sleepy during the day, you may have a sleep disorder.
True
false


4. Opening the car window or turning the radio up will keep the drowsy driver awake.
True
false


5. Narcolepsy is a sleep disorder marked by "sleep attacks."
True
false


6. The primary cause of insomnia is worry.
True
false


7. One cause of not getting enough sleep is restless legs syndrome.
True
false


8. The body has a natural ability to adjust to different sleep schedules such as working different shifts or traveling through multiple time zones quickly.
True
false


9. People need less sleep as they grow older.
True
false


10. More people doze off at the wheel of a car in the early morning or midafternoon than in the evening.
True
false


Source: National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute

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