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Confusional arousals
Confusional arousals refer to sleep drunkenness or excessive sleep inertia, this disorder is an extreme example of the slowness most people feel upon awakening.
People with confusional arousals respond poorly to commands or questions, and have major memory impairment of things that happened a short time before.
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