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What is a cataplexy?

What is a cataplexy? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. (medicine) An abrupt loss of muscle tone, sometimes associated with narcolepsy.
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This debilitating disorder manifests itself in other symptoms, such as cataplexy.
Not enough people suffer from cataplexy for a major drug company to bother investing in research and development of this medicine.
My major problem now is cataplexy associated with emotion, usually laughter.
I have Narcolepsy and as a result I experience cataplexy, automatic behavior, sleep paralysis, microsleeps, and hypnagogic hallucinations.
It is also approved by the EMEA for the treatment of narcolepsy with cataplexy in adult patients.
Sleepiness and cataplexy are the symptoms of narcolepsy that most often merit treatment with drugs.

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