A mother brings her adolescent to the clinic, complaining that the child "must be on drugs" because he "sleeps all the time" and "sometimes gets floppy like a rag doll."
You refer the child to the physician because you recognize that these behaviors may be manifestations of:
1. depression.
2. sleep deprivation.
3. a parasomnia.
4. narcolepsy.
ANS: 4
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