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Communications Medicine, 2022 Järvelä et al. investigate if narcolepsy is associated with altered brain pulsations using ultrafast fMRI. They find differences in the brain pulsations between narcolepsy type 1 patients and healthy controls that may link to altered brain clearance in ...
Matti Järvelä +5 more
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Hypocretin Levels in Sporadic and Familial Cases of Canine Narcolepsy
Neurobiology of Disease, 2001 Familial and sporadic forms of narcolepsy exist in both humans and canines. Mutations in the hypocretin receptor 2 gene (Hcrtr 2) cause canine familial narcolepsy.
Beth Ripley +4 more
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Autoimmunity and Immunotherapy in Narcolepsy [PDF]
Sleep Medicine Research, 2017 Narcolepsy is a neurological disorder characterized by excessive daytime sleepiness, cataplexy, hypnagogic hallucination, and sleep paralysis. Narcolepsy is caused by damage of hypocretin producing neurons in the lateral hypothalamus.
Min Jae Seong, Seung Bong Hong
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Narcolepsy and anxiety. Is this association possible?
European Psychiatry, 2021 Introduction Excessive daytime sleepiness, hypnagogic-hypnopompic hallucinations, sleep paralysis, and cataplexy are symptoms associated with narcolepsy. It is not uncommon to occur co-morbidly between narcolepsy and psychiatric disorders.
G.M. Ruiz Martinez +2 more
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Scientific Reports, 2018 The pathophysiology of rapid eye movement sleep behavior disorder (RBD) associated with narcolepsy type 1 (NT1) is still poorly understood, potentially distinct from idiopathic RBD (iRBD), but may share affected common pathways.
Lucie Barateau +7 more
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Narcolepsy Along with an Update
Türk Uyku Tıbbı Dergisi, 2015 Narcolepsy is the most common primary hypersomnia, which is caused by loss of hypocretin neurons. Hypocretin in the neurohypothalamus is of crucial role in the maintenance of awakeness. Narcolepsy is characterized by hypnagogic/hypnopompic hallucinations,
Kutluhan Yilmaz
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Analysis of thyroid function and related factors in narcolepsy patients
Scientific Reports, 2023 The loss of hypocretin is thought to be the main pathophysiological mechanism of narcolepsy. There is strong evidence that hypocretin is related to the regulation of endocrine functions and depression.
Hongli Wang, Mingrui Jia
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Narcolepsy Diagnosis With Sleep Stage Features Using PSG Recordings
IEEE Transactions on Neural Systems and Rehabilitation Engineering, 2023 Narcolepsy is a sleep disorder affecting millions of people worldwide and causes serious public health problems. It is hard for doctors to correctly and objectively diagnose narcolepsy.
Jiquan Wang +7 more
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Narcolepsy—A Neuropathological Obscure Sleep Disorder: A Narrative Review of Current Literature
Brain Sciences, 2022 Narcolepsy is a chronic, long-term neurological disorder characterized by a decreased ability to regulate sleep–wake cycles. Some clinical symptoms enter into differential diagnosis with other neurological diseases. Excessive daytime sleepiness and brief
Vishal Chavda +5 more
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Body Weight and Metabolic Rate Changes in Narcolepsy: Current Knowledge and Future Directions
Metabolites, 2022 Narcolepsy is a known auto-immune disease that presents mainly in the teenage years with irresistible sleep attacks. Patients with narcolepsy, especially NT1, have been found to have a high prevalence of obesity and other metabolic derangements.
Hamza O. Dhafar, Ahmed S. BaHammam
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