Eating well is a good choice for everyone, but it may be especially important for people with narcolepsy. If you have narcolepsy, you have a higher risk of obesity. People with narcolepsy “have ...

This isn’t the case when you have narcolepsy with cataplexy. Narcolepsy is a chronic condition that happens when you don’t have enough neurons that make orexins. People with narcolepsy are ...

Horsnell has narcolepsy, a sleep disorder that makes it hard to stay awake for long periods. Not only will a person fall asleep repeatedly during the day, but they will have extremely disrupted ...

Some people with narcolepsy experience sleep paralysis, which is when they are unable to move on waking up. This may be due to how both conditions affect the nervous system. Sleep paralysis is a ...

Everyone experiences occasional daytime sleepiness, but just a small fraction of the population knows what it’s like to have narcolepsy. The disorder is defined by persistent drowsiness ...

Results also partly explain why the 2009 swine flu virus, and a vaccine against it, led to spikes in the sleep disorder. As the H1N1 swine flu pandemic swept the world in 2009, China saw a spike ...

Narcolepsy is a sleep disorder that causes excessive sleepiness and frequent daytime sleep attacks. What is it like to never feel fully rested? Three women discuss the realities of living with a ...