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Disruption in the Normal Patterns of Sleep Is One of the Main

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Disruption in the normal patterns of sleep is one of the main characteristics of major depressive disorder. Which of the following is NOT typical of the sleep patterns of people with major depressive disorder?


A) The amount of time spent in nondreaming, deeply relaxed sleep is greatly reduced or absent during major depressive disorder.
B) Depressed people often awaken spontaneously at three or four o'clock in the morning and cannot get back to sleep even though they are still tired.
C) Some depressed people sleep excessively, sometimes as much as 18 hours a day.
D) Periods of dreaming REM sleep occur in regular 90-minute cycles rather than the normal, sporadic, and variable periods of REM.

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