Sentences with phrase «like narcolepsy»

Number one is could they have a sleep disorder, like narcolepsy, where they actually need more sleep than the average person would need, and they are not sleeping enough.

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.

Such experiments suggest that deletion of cellular activity, even for a brief time, «is causally involved with a pathological process like narcolepsy,» Boyden said.

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Narcolepsy can be disturbing because people fall asleep without warning, making it hazardous to do things like drive.

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

Scientists believe it has potential to combat psychiatric disorders like depression, narcolepsy, Parkinson's and many others.

She also has high catecholamine when standing, has sleep attacks that look like she has narcolepsy.

If you'd like to share any lifestyle or dietary habits you've adopted in order to mitigate your narcolepsy, I would love to hear about it.

Narcolepsy is, I recently realized, a little like being a two year old in terms of sleep needs; every few hours, my brain needs to shut down and recover, or I become sleepy, grumpy, and can't think clearly.

After battling tears through a series of straightforward health and lifestyle - related questions and a brief physical examination, the doctor gave me information on a nearby lab and instructed me to make appointments for a Polysomnogram and Multiple Sleep Latency Test or MSLT, the most effective methods for diagnosing narcolepsy while simultaneously ruling out other more common disorders like insomnia and sleep apnea.While I slept, what seemed like tons of tiny electrodes monitored my brain waves, eye movement, heart rate and muscle activity.

Cinderella has a Gollum complex, Snow White likes Led Zeppelin, Sleeping Beauty has narcolepsy, and Rapunzel's got a dark side.

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.

Noctis also has the issue of having a kind of narcolepsy where he drifts off into a trance like sleep.