1. the principles of government set forth in The Prince by Machiavelli, in which political expediency is exalted above morality and the use of er aft and deceit to maintain authority or to effectuate policy is recommended. Also Machiavellism. 2. activity characterized by subtle cunning, duplicity, or bad faith.
Sleep related eating disorder (SRED) is a parasomnia. A parasomnia involves undesired events that come along with sleep. SRED consists of repeated episodes of compulsive binge eating and drinking after waking up in the night. Episodes always occur in an âout of controlâ manner. They tend to occur when you are only partially awake.
SUBJECTIVE JUDGMENTS ABOUT SLEEP LATENCY. and total sleep time are of central importance to the diag-. nosis and treatment of insomnia and related sleep disorders. However, it is widely recognized that subjective recollec-. tions of sleep experience provide only a partial, and often. inaccurate, portrayal of the nature and severity of objective. sleep difficulties. Whereas many normal sleepers provide. estimates of total sleep time and sleep latency that agree. with polysomnographic (PSG) measures,1,2 insomnia. patients often report greater sleep disruption than is evi-. denced by objective laboratory data.