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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—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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National Journal of Neurology, 2012 A.M. is a 19 years old university student without any previous illness. During the fourth year of high school, episodes of motor paralysis began to occur during awakening when she is conscious, but she needs a few minutes to start to move. The episodes are manifested a couple of times monthly.
Lj. Radulovic +3 more
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European Neurology, 2009 Jerome M. Siegel, PhD, is professor of psychiatry at the University of California, Los Angeles, former president of the Sleep Research Society, and the recipient of Merit and Javits awards from the National Institutes of Health and the Distinguished Scientist award from the Sleep Research Society. His laboratory has made discoveries concerning the role
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Quickly diagnosed and treated prepubertal Type 1 narcolepsy case
Psychiatry and Clinical Psychopharmacology, 2018 Excessive daytime sleepiness, cataplexy, sleep paralysis, and hypnagogic hallucination are the classic tetrad of narcolepsy. It has been shown that narcolepsy, a chronic and disabling disease, starts in childhood and adolescence rather than adulthood ...
Fikret Poyraz Çökmüş +3 more
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The Prevalence and Characteristics of Primary Headache and Dream-Enacting Behaviour in Japanese Patients with Narcolepsy or Idiopathic Hypersomnia: A Multi-Centre Cross-Sectional Study. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2015 Because the prevalence and characteristics of primary headache have yet to be thoroughly studied in patients with hypersomnia disorders, including narcolepsy and idiopathic hypersomnia, we examined these parameters in the Japanese population.In a ...
Keisuke Suzuki +14 more
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Current Treatment Options in Neurology, 1999 Narcolepsy is a disabling, chronic sleep-wake disorder that typically starts in a patient's second or third decade of life. Its key features are hypersomnia and cataplexy. Sleep paralysis, hallucinations, and disrupted sleep are nonspecific symptoms and are not always present.
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Narcolepsy Syndrome in a Patient with Multiple Sclerosis
Türk Uyku Tıbbı Dergisi, 2014 Narcolepsy syndrome is characterized by excessive daytime sleepiness with or without cataplexy. In addition to excessive daytime sleepiness and cataplexy, other symptoms related to REM-sleep such as disturbed night sleep, sleep paralysis and hypnopompic ...
Deniz Yerdelen +4 more
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Frontiers in Neurology, 2018 Objective: To identify narcolepsy related regional brain activity alterations compared with matched healthy controls. To determine whether these changes can be used to distinguish narcolepsy from healthy controls by recursive partitioning analysis (RPA ...
Xiao Fulong +6 more
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