How are normal sleeping controls selected? A systematic review of cross-sectional insomnia studies, and a standardised method to select healthy controls for sleep research [PDF]
, 2008 There appears to be some inconsistency in how normal sleepers (controls) are selected and screened for participation in research studies for comparison with insomnia patients.
Louise Beattie +59 more
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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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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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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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Trypanosoma brucei brucei invasion and T-cell infiltration of the brain parenchyma in experimental sleeping sickness: timing and correlation with functional changes [PDF]
, 2016 Background: The timing of Trypanosoma brucei entry into the brain parenchyma to initiate the second, meningoencephalitic stage of human African trypanosomiasis or sleeping sickness is currently debated and even parasite invasion of the neuropil has ...
Bentivoglio, Marina +8 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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Narcolepsy and emotional experience: a review of the literature [PDF]
, 2018 Narcolepsy is a chronic sleep disorder characterized by excessive daytime sleepiness, cataplexy, hypnagogic hallucinations, and sleep paralysis. This disease affects significantly the overall patient functioning, interfering with social, work, and ...
De Gennaro, Luigi +4 more
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