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Nature Reviews Disease Primers, 2017 Narcolepsy is a chronic sleep disorder that has a typical onset in adolescence and is characterized by excessive daytime sleepiness, which can have severe consequences for the patient. Problems faced by patients with narcolepsy include social stigma associated with this disease, difficulties in obtaining an education and keeping a job, a reduced ...
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Clinical pearls for the treatment of narcolepsy [PDF]
Mental Health ClinicianNarcolepsy is a chronic neurologic state in which patients experience an irrepressible need to sleep or lapses into sleep. The hallmark symptom of narcolepsy is excessive daytime sleepiness, but patients may also experience other symptoms, such as ...
Marilyn N. Bulloch, PharmD, BCPS, FCCM, SPP +1 more
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Narcolepsy, autoimmunity, and influenza A H1N1 vaccination [PDF]
Encephalitis, 2021 Narcolepsy is a rare neurological disorder characterized by excessive daytime sleepiness (EDS) with or without cataplexy. A main pathophysiology of narcolepsy is hypocretin deficiency in the central nervous system resulting from a selective loss of ...
Jun-Sang Sunwoo
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Exploring the Literature on Narcolepsy: Insights into the Sleep Disorder That Strikes during the Day
NeuroSci, 2023 Narcolepsy is a chronic sleep disorder that disrupts the regulation of a person’s sleep–wake cycle, leading to significant challenges in daily functioning.
Ana-Maria Mațotă +3 more
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Journal of Clinical Neurophysiology, 1990 Narcolepsy is a neurological condition with a prevalence of up to 1 per 1,000 that is characterized by irresistible bouts of sleep. Associated features include the pathological manifestations of rapid-eye-movement (REM) sleep: cataplexy, sleep paralysis, hypnagogic hallucinations, and abnormal sleep-onset REM periods and disturbed nocturnal sleep.
M M, Mitler +3 more
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Etiopathogenesis and Neurobiology of Narcolepsy: A Review [PDF]
Journal of Clinical and Diagnostic Research, 2014 Narcolepsy is a chronic lifelong sleep disorder and it often leaves a debilitating effect on the quality of life of the sufferer. This disorder is characterized by a tetrad of excessive daytime sleepiness, cataplexy (brief loss of muscle tone following ...
Swarup Kumar, Haritha Sagili
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Progress on narcolepsy and anxiety
Chinese Journal of Contemporary Neurology and Neurosurgery, 2023 Narcolepsy is a rare sleep disorder characterized by excessive daytime sleepiness (EDS), cataplexy, sleep hallucination and sleep paralysis, and the vast majority of patients are accompanied by anxiety. There are neuronal interconnections and projections
YU Jie⁃yang +5 more
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Health-related stigma as a determinant of functioning in young adults with narcolepsy. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2015 Symptoms of narcolepsy tend to arise during adolescence or young adulthood, a formative time in human development during which people are usually completing their education and launching a career.
Mary C Kapella +5 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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Diagnosis and treatment of narcolepsy and parasomnias
Sichuan jingshen weisheng, 2021 The purpose of this article is to discuss the clinical diagnosis and treatment of narcolepsy and parasomnias. In view of high probability and great harm of missed diagnosis and misdiagnosis of narcolepsy， as well as its close association with parasomnias，
Zhou Junying
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