Sentences with phrase «causes narcolepsy»

Professor Mignot is internationally renowned for having discovered the mutation that causes narcolepsy in dogs.

And after decades of puzzling over what causes narcolepsy's fits of daytime sleep and muscle paralysis, researchers suspect it's a response to an autoimmune disease.

Mignot thinks it probably takes a defective gene and a trigger, like stress or even a virus, to cause narcolepsy.

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.

But the larger question of what caused the narcolepsy of Ben and other children remains unresolved.

Not exact matches

A very rare but important cause of extreme sleepiness (despite getting good quality sleep) is a neurological sleep disorder called narcolepsy.

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

«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.

Medication has kept these symptoms largely under control — a good thing, since narcolepsy can cause some odd behavior.

Although humans with narcolepsy do not possess the same genetic mutation, this finding still proved instrumental in unraveling the disease's fundamental cause.

«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.

Sleep paralysis is a symptom of narcolepsy, a sleep disorder that causes severe, excessive daytime sleepiness, Dr. Kline says.

Narcolepsy can be caused by numerous factors.

Hormonal changes that occur when an adolescent is going through puberty, as well as the hormonal changes that occur during menopause, are especially known to cause symptoms of narcolepsy.

Some sleep disorders can affect a person's ability to fall asleep, such as insomnia, while others might cause them to feel tired throughout the day and wake up constantly during the night, such as narcolepsy.

Examples would be insomnia from hormone imbalances and the biochemical imbalances that cause depression, sleep apnea (the windpipe collapses during sleep blocking air flow which causes snoring which wakes you up) and narcolepsy (uncontrollable bouts of sleep during the day).

The reasoning being that it is made for those who suffer specifically from certain sleep related conditions like narcolepsy or sleep apnea, which causes them to experience extreme sleepiness or tiredness during the day.

It was agreed that John's narcolepsy with cataplexy was caused by his vaccination against H1N1 flu in 2009.

Narcolepsy is a chronic neurological disorder (or dyssomnia), which is caused by the brain's inability to control sleep and wakefulness.