Sentences with phrase «narcolepsy at»

«History of Narcolepsy at Stanford University,» by Emmanuel Mignot, Stanford Immunology, 2014.

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.

Not exact matches

Of the $ 2,836,088 in «direct public support» the NSF received in 2005 (the most recent IRS disclosure I could find), it seems that $ 470,000 came from Pfizer, which in 2005 was primping for the debut of the sleep - aid drug Indiplon, which it has since dropped; $ 299,000 came from GlaxoSmithKline, makers of Sominex; $ 152,000 from King Pharmaceuticals (Sonata); $ 596,670 from Sanofi Aventis (Ambien); $ 471,800 from Takeda Pharmaceuticals (Rozerem); $ 133,183 from Sepracor (Lunesta); $ 100,000 from the hepcats over at Jazz Pharmaceuticals, who make the narcolepsy drug Xyrem; and $ 100,000 from Cephalon, maker of another drug used for narcolepsy, Provigil.

Optogenetics also has been used to mimic the underlying mechanisms in narcolepsy, a disorder that causes patients to fall asleep at inopportune times.

And because they can slide rapidly into REM at any time, people with narcolepsy are prone to hallucinations — or what sleep researchers refer to as hypnagogic imagery — when falling asleep.

The work strongly suggests that Pandemrix, which was given to more than 30 million Europeans, triggered an autoimmune re action that led to narcolepsy in some people who are genetically at risk.

When they heard about the rise in narcolepsy in 2010, neuroscientist Lawrence Steinman of Stanford University in Palo Alto, California, and rheumatologist Sohail Ahmed, who at the time was global head of clinical sciences at Novartis's vaccines and diagnostics division in Siena, Italy, began scouring databases for proteins expressed in the brain that might resemble those in the vaccine.

In the early 1980s, scientists at the University of Tokyo found that all of their narcolepsy patients had the same form of the human leukocyte antigen, or HLA.

«I drink enough to use the bathroom every hour,» says Ann Austin, 46, a health - care training and development specialist in St. Louis who has narcolepsy, which causes her to have sudden sleep attacks during the day, particularly when she is driving or working at the computer for long stretches.

Conditions such as sleep apnea and narcolepsy, or just regular sleep deprivation, cause excessive daytime sleepiness; people will nod off while doing normal daytime activities such as driving or sitting at a desk.

Lupus, IBD, psoriasis, and neurological such as Parkinson's and early memory loss / dementia, depression, anxiety, event PTSD (fighter pilots with narcolepsy), traumatic brain injury, as well as diabetes and obesity (to normalize blood sugars), and heart disease atherosclerosis which is now being looked at as possible autoimmune since it is a gut and inflammation issue.

That was the big news at the Oct. 2010 «Annual Narcolepsy Patient Conference» I attended was.

Why the docs don't share more info I can't say, but most narcoleptics are totally ignorant of the fact that the sleepiness of narcolepsy is only a symptom of the underlying endocrine disorder, and only one symptom at that.

Eric Byer (Edward Norton), a bureaucrat of lethal competence at a black - budget agency so powerful that it goes by the narcolepsy - inducing name the National Research Assay Group.

This family of seven is financially strapped — Barakat's father is a truck driver afflicted with narcolepsy, a potentially deadly combination — and readers will be astounded at how often they relocate.

Travis Collinson has been featured in group exhibition throughout the country most recently in Look at me: Portraiture from Manet to Present at Leila Heller Gallery in New York and a solo exhibition at Dominican University titled Narcolepsy in Pink.

Narcolepsy: Excessive daytime sleepiness (EDS) often culminating in falling asleep spontaneously but unwillingly at inappropriate times.

Narcolepsy is diagnosed if sleep attacks occur every day for at least three months (alth...