A sleep disorder characterized by overwhelming bouts of excessive daytime sleepiness and brief uncontrollable episodes of sleep is called:
A) transient insomnia.
B) narcolepsy.
C) parasomnia.
D) somnambulism.

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Narcolepsy is a sleep disorder that causes excessive daytime sleepiness and uncontrollable episodes of sleep called sleep attacks. Transient insomnia is a short-term difficulty in falling or staying asleep, parasomnia refers to abnormal behaviors or experiences during sleep, and somnambulism is sleepwalking.

A Sleep Disorder Characterized by Overwhelming Bouts of Excessive Daytime