Sentences with phrase «said narcolepsy»

We might have said narcolepsy.

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The hypocretin receptor 2 gene could be the single most important gene in human narcolepsy, says Michael Aldrich, a neurologist and director of the University of Michigan's Sleep Disorders Center.

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

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.

«Since I was a kid, I'd have hallucinations while falling asleep or waking up that I thought were real because I didn't know I had narcolepsy,» she says.

But the results still need to be confirmed in a larger study, the authors and other narcolepsy researchers say.

«We've known for years that narcolepsy is probably an autoimmune disease, but every attempt to prove it has turned up nothing,» says Michael Silber, a neuroscientist with the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota.

«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.

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

While it's most common in people with narcolepsy, it's also linked to lack of sleep and an irregular sleep schedule, says Dr. Walia.

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.

That said, not all sleep problems are so easily treated and could signify the presence of a sleep disorder such as apnea, restless legs syndrome, narcolepsy, or another clinical sleep problem.

i have a low grade form of narcolepsy and a pension for buggery i used to smoke pot with johnny Hopkins, yea him and Sloan Kettering where blazing that up everyday, im huge in japan, i was born to a German prostitute named Frau, my summers were quite mundane summers luge in the Swiss alps and if i was insolent i was placed a burlap sack and beating with bars of soap did your pants say on sale, cuz in my room they would be a 100 % off

«What did you say when the next doctor told you he suspected narcolepsy?»