SICK is a new series by Seeker that looks at how diseases actually work inside our body. This week, it profiles narcolepsy.
When you think of narcolepsy, you probably think of people falling asleep at seemingly random times, but it’s actually much more than that. It causes hallucinations, insomnia, sleep paralysis and can be triggered by moments of joy. Oh, and the key to understanding it came from studying man’s best friend.
Excellent Seeker presentation Emmanuel!
How do you think GHB works to stop cataplexy?
Do you think that my idea that chronic partial sleep deprivation can also cause narcolepsy with cataplexy, possibly a non-auto-immune cause of this disorder, though possibly requiring also having the genetic predisposition, but possibly not?
My ideas on the etiology of narcolepsy are summarized in:
8. Scrima, L, Swick T. Narcolepsy. In Pandi-Perumal SR (ed). Synopsis of Sleep Medicine, Apple Academic Press, 2016.
6. Scrima, L. Dreaming, an Epiphenomenon of Narcolepsy, In Dreaming & Nightmares, Sleep Medicine Clinics. In J. Pagel (ed). W.B.Saunders, Div. of Elsevier, 2010, 5(2), 261-275.
Larry
Lawrence Scrima, PhD, D,ABSM, FAASM
Principal, Sleep Expert Consultants, LLC
Sleep Specialist, Rocky Mountain Health Diagnostics, LLC