Anne has noticed that for the past three weeks she is unable to sleep for more than five hours at a time,even though she used to regularly get 8 hours of sleep per night.She wakes early in the morning and just can't fall back to sleep once this happens.It appears that Anne has developed
A) somnambulism.
B) insomnia.
C) pseudoinsomnia.
D) sleep apnea.

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Anne's inability to sleep for more than five hours and wakefulness in the early hours of the morning suggest she may have developed insomnia, which is a sleep disorder characterized by difficulty in initiating or maintaining sleep. A is incorrect because somnambulism refers to sleepwalking, which is a different sleep disorder. C is incorrect because pseudoinsomnia is a perception that one is not asleep when they actually are, which do not apply to Anne's case. D is incorrect because sleep apnea is a different sleep disorder characterized by breathing interruptions during sleep, and there is no mention of this symptom in Anne's case.

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