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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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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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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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Ullanlinna Narcolepsy Scale in diagnosis of narcolepsy [PDF]
Sleep, 2018 To validate Ullanlinna Narcolepsy Scale (UNS) as a screening tool for narcolepsy in a clinical population and to compare it with Swiss Narcolepsy Scale (SNS) and Epworth Sleepiness Scale (ESS).UNS questionnaires of 267 participants visiting Helsinki Sleep Clinic were analyzed.
Tomi Sarkanen +2 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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Human Genome Variation, 2019 AbstractNarcolepsy is a term that was initially coined by Gélineáu in 1880 and is a chronic neurological sleep disorder that manifests as a difficulty in maintaining wakefulness and sleep for long periods. Currently, narcolepsy is subdivided into two types according to the International Classification of Sleep Disorders, 3rd edition: narcolepsy type 1 (
Miyagawa, Taku, Tokunaga, Katsushi
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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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ApoEpolymorphisms in narcolepsy [PDF]
BMC Medical Genetics, 2001 Narcolepsy is a common neuropsychiatric disorder characterized by increased daytime sleepiness, cataplexy and hypnagogic hallucinations. Deficiency of the hypocretin neurotransmitter system was shown to be involved in the pathogenesis of narcolepsy in animals and men. There are several hints that neurodegeneration of hypocretin producing neurons in the
Kasten Meike +5 more
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Narcolepsy with cataplexy in monozygotic twins
Sleep Science, 2014 Introduction: This paper describes narcolepsy with cataplexy in two monozygotic twin sisters. Objective: To clinically illustrate the involvement of neurological, genetic and immunologic systems in narcolepsy.
Leonardo I. Goulart +4 more
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Narcolepsy in early childhood: a case report and a Mini review
Frontiers in PediatricsNarcolepsy is a sleep-wake disorder with an onset commonly seen in individuals aged 10–30 years. Due to various reasons, the diagnosis of narcolepsy often experiences a delay of at least ten years.
Guorui Liu +12 more
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