I understand that it is very rare for persons with narcolepsy to sustain serious injury as a result of an attack or to harm others.
The two primary symptoms of narcolepsy are excessive daytime sleeping and cataplexy.
It has also been used for the treatment of narcolepsy, alcohol dependence and opiate dependence.
Increased body-mass index in patients with narcolepsy.
It is unclear how the selective loss of orexin\hypocretin neurons occurs in narcolepsy.
Unlike canine models of narcolepsy, no orexin\hypocretin receptor mutations were observed.
Randomized trial of modafinil for the treatment of pathological somnolence in narcolepsy.
The editorial in this issue reviews the orexins\hypocretins, a recently recognized group of neuropeptides, involved in sleep, arousal, narcolepsy and possibly other disorders.
