Sentences with phrase «narcolepsy may»

Still, the quest to explain the Pandemrix link to narcolepsy may lead to a breakthrough in understanding the disorder.

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Interestingly, those who suffer from narcolepsy, a disease in which people are excessively tired and may spontaneously fall asleep during the day, also lack orexin due to a breakdown in the brain cells that produce it.

Teens with narcolepsy are often very sleepy during the day and have sleep «attacks» that may make them suddenly fall asleep, lose muscle control, or see vivid dreamlike images while dozing off or waking up.

These drugs may be used recreationally to purposefully alter one's consciousness (such as coffee, alcohol or cannabis), as entheogens for spiritual purposes (such as the mescaline - containing peyote cactus or psilocybin - containing mushrooms), and also as medication (such as the use of narcotics in controlling pain, stimulants to treat narcolepsy and attention disorders, as well as anti-depressants and anti-psychotics for treating neurological and psychiatric illnesses).

Previous research suggests exposure to a virus may elicit a similar reaction in genetically predisposed people, leading to narcolepsy.

Her intuition may be correct and could have a physiological explanation, says Emmanuel Mignot, a Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator and director of the Center for Narcolepsy at Stanford University.

«It may be that a mild form of narcolepsy happens much more often than we realize and is an unappreciated cause of excessive sleepiness in the general population,» says Mignot.

The US is now funding a large study of countries that used adjuvanted vaccines in 2009 to see if they may have caused narcolepsy.

It turned out that, in some people with a specific genetic variant, the vaccine, Pandemrix, caused narcolepsy and this generated a lot of discussion as to whether other autoimmune diseases may be induced by the vaccine.

The discovery may eventually lead to improved narcolepsy treatments.

That may be why immunotherapy for narcolepsy has so far yielded lackluster results.

And it may be that the vaccine only accelerated progression of narcolepsy in children who would have developed it anyway.

It sounds like Bandit may have narcolepsy; it can occur when a dog gets over excited they just collapse to the floor and then get up like nothing happened; it can be misdiagnosed as a seizure, but seizures are usually violent episodes with shaking, incontinence etc... There is no treatment for narcolepsy, but it is harmless and doesn't progress in severity.

If you suspect that your dog may have narcolepsy and cataplexy, your veterinarian will perform a physical examination, some basic neurological tests and laboratory screenings, including a complete blood count, chemistry profile panel, thyroid hormone profile and urinalysis, to rule out other medical conditions.

A number of serious neurological / neuromuscular diseases affect Labrador Retrievers, including polyneuropathy (centronuclear myopathy), laryngeal paralysis, megaesophagus, myasthenia gravis, cerebellar ataxia, narcolepsy, and also vague head tremors that may be the result of unknown abnormalities in the brain.

The first time that an owner observes an attack of narcolepsy and cataplexy in a dog, he or she may confuse the attack with seizure activity.

Your workers may have narcolepsy and fall asleep in the shop.