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When alissa awakened during a period of rem sleep, she reported experiencing intense fear. a pet scan most likely would reveal that her rem sleep was associated with increased activity in her?

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In the pet scan, the rem sleep is associated with the increase activity in her physiological arousal. She may have been experience this due to a sleep disturbance in which is paired with intense fear, this type of sleep disturbance may be called as sleep terror.

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