| The drug is used for narcolepsy, a condition in which people fall asleep unexpectedly during the day. |
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| The combination of daytime sleepiness, cataplexy, sleep paralysis, and hypnagogic hallucinations suggested narcolepsy. |
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| Occasionally, epilepsy can be mistaken for narcolepsy, and factitious simulation of narcolepsy has been described. |
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| Research is needed to establish whether computerised tests of vigilance are useful predictors of safety at the wheel in people with narcolepsy. |
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| Scientists believe they may have identified the cause of the debilitating sleep disorder narcolepsy in humans. |
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| Research has identified that there is reduced hypocretin in the brains of those who have narcolepsy. |
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| While medication and naps helped her deal with narcolepsy, no proven treatment for cataplexy has been found. |
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| While insomnia comes in many forms, there are people with narcolepsy who fall asleep while at work, talking or driving. |
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| The drug was first approved in 1998 to treat narcolepsy, an uncommon condition in which sufferers fall asleep uncontrollably during the day. |
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| Sleepiness and cataplexy are the symptoms of narcolepsy that most often merit treatment with drugs. |
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| A person with insomnia may also have another sleep disorder such as sleep apnea, narcolepsy, and restless legs syndrome. |
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| It was developed to treat narcolepsy, a rare condition that makes people fall asleep unexpectedly and uncontrollably. |
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| Other underlying causes include arthritis, kidney disease, heart failure, asthma, sleep apnea, narcolepsy, restless legs syndrome, Parkinson's disease, and hyperthyroidism. |
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| Our light-fingered fig climber commits acts of larceny while the crumb-laden colossus eats his weight in skunk soup and then falls into narcolepsy. |
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| White said she took modafinil to combat the fatigue and sleep-inducing affects of narcolepsy. |
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| Associated with narcolepsy is cataplexy, a brief impairment of muscle tone such as a limpness of the arms or legs. |
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| An example is narcolepsy, in which emotionally laden events trigger sudden cataplexy. |
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| Amphetamines were first used in the 1930s to treat narcolepsy and subsequently became prescribed for obesity and fatigue. |
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| It is being investigated for the treatment of narcolepsy associated cataplexy. |
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| The substance is used, to a much lesser extent, for the treatment of obesity and narcolepsy. |
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| The substance is prescribed for the treatment of ADD and narcolepsy and as a psychostimulant. |
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| Work on dogs with narcolepsy has supported the view that a noradrenaline neurotransmitter mechanism is involved. |
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| These cases illustrate the scope for mistaking narcolepsy for epilepsy. |
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| Human narcolepsy generally stems from a shortage of the neurons, which produce the excitatory neurotransmitter known both as hypocretin and orexin. |
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| Once established, the symptoms of narcolepsy generally persist for life. |
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| Insomnia, narcolepsy, idiopathic hypersomnia, restless legs syndrome, and numerous medications are also common causes of inadequate sleep in adolescents. |
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| The rapidity of the recent elucidation of the causes of narcolepsy is quite startling and should remind us that new knowledge can be discovered very quickly. |
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| The role of cerebro-spinal hypocretin measurement in the diagnostic of narcolepsy and other hypersomnias. |
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| Modafinil is a central nervous stimulant medication that is an effective treatment for narcolepsy and hypersomnia. |
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| Before discussing narcolepsy and how its investigation will likely lead to means of helping sufferers but also open up new roads to misuse, a brief review of modern knowledge of biological clocks will be necessary. |
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| Caroline Hadfield, 42, said Josh developed narcolepsy aged four, three weeks after he was given the vaccine containing Pandemrix. |
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| This condition differs from narcolepsy, although horses may also suffer from that disorder. |
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| British researchers have discovered that the 2009 H1N1 influenza vaccine increased-the risk of narcolepsy in children and adolescents. |
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| For instance, DR2 is a risk factor for multiple sclerosis and even more so for narcolepsy whereas it is a protective factor for insulin-dependent diabetes. |
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| Ibogaine has been proven to cure heroin addiction, and GHB is commonly used outside of the United States in the treatment of narcolepsy. |
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| The study will compare the sleeping pill zoldipem tartrate, marketed as Ambien, with the narcolepsy drug sodium oxybate, marketed as Xyrem. |
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| In particular, human beings with narcolepsy have low or non-existent levels of hypocretins in their brains and thus would lack this excitatory input to the noradrenergic neurons. |
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| The third section provides criteria to assess seizure disorders, narcolepsy and cataplexy, headache conditions and miscellaneous neurological conditions. |
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| Excitement-induced narcolepsy caused him to sleep through the most important events of his life. |
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| Treatment of narcolepsy and other hypersomnias of central origin. |
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| The reality of narcolepsy is not widely known but now Mitch hopes his story can shed some light on the auto-immune condition which affects just 170 people in Ireland. |
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| Research studies have found that GHB can relieve symptoms of narcolepsy. |
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| Certain drugs such as modafinil, used to treat narcolepsy, have been shown to improve cognition and are becoming increasingly popular with students revising for exams. |
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| Scammell's current research focuses on mouse models of narcolepsy, as mice lacking orexins also experience sleepiness and frequent episodes of cataplexy. |
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| Narcolepsy has been mistaken for epilepsy, chronic fatigue syndrome, and schizophrenia. |
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| I have Narcolepsy and as a result I experience cataplexy, automatic behavior, sleep paralysis, microsleeps, and hypnagogic hallucinations. |
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