One woman shares about the narcolepsy symptoms that disrupted her life, and the journey to a diagnosis: "I'm living proof you ...

Narcolepsy is a disorder that happens when your brain’s control of your sleep-wake cycle is faulty. You can get so drowsy during the day that you might fall asleep suddenly while driving or eating.

“Then months later, you start to develop narcolepsy because your brain is no longer making orexin.” There is no drug to treat narcolepsy, but medications can tackle some of the worst symptom ...

The most common is narcolepsy. Narcolepsy differs from fatigue because it's a chronic neurological disorder that compromises your brain's sleep/wake control. Your brain can't always choose when ...

There are few sex differences in narcolepsy type 1 symptom onset, but women have longer sleep times, higher efficiency, and men have higher BMI.

It is also possible that immunosuppressive treatment could be causing symptomatic improvement in humans by affecting the function of brain systems linked to the symptoms of narcolepsy, including ...

Sleep also enables the body to repair and replenish cellular material that is damaged or depleted. Important bodily functions ...

His paper proposed knockout mice as a model for human narcolepsy and orexin as a key regulator of the sleep/wake cycle. With orexin-activated neurons branching into other areas of the brain ...