Narcolepsy with cataplexy, now known as type 1 narcolepsy, is a chronic neurological disorder that affects a person’s sleep-wake cycle and involves muscle weakness. The condition can cause a person to ...

Emmanuel Mignot and Masashi Yanagisawa have won the 2023 Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences for discovering the cause of narcolepsy, a lifelong disorder in which people suddenly fall asleep and ...

Hypersomnia and narcolepsy are both sleep disorders that cause excessive daytime sleepiness and other changes in natural sleep-wake cycles. "Hypersomnia" actually refers to several sleep conditions ...

That overwhelming sleepiness dragging you down might not just be from staying up too late scrolling through TikTok. While everyone occasionally battles the afternoon slump, people with hypersomnia or ...

People with narcolepsy often need to take medicines to manage their symptoms. Many of these medicines carry a high risk for abuse or misuse, so there are restrictions on how they are prescribed and ...

Takeda Pharmaceutical Co.’s experimental narcolepsy drug significantly improved outcome for patients in late-stage clinical trials, and could become the first treatment to target the root cause of the ...

There's a saying that goes "Sleeping medicine". Sufficient sleep is especially important for adolescents who are in the midst of growing up. However, if you are experiencing daytime sleepiness or ...

Narcolepsy, with or without cataplexy, can have a substantial detrimental effect on well-being and quality of life. Because there is no cure for this condition, current treatments aim to improve ...

There is no biological measure for wakefulness. In a narcolepsy clinical trial, a patient lies down in a dark lab while clinicians count the minutes until sleep comes. The average time in four tests ...

A swell in new cases of narcolepsy in China followed seasonal patterns of flu, including H1N1, according to a recent study led by Dr. Emmanuel Mignot of the Stanford University School of Medicine. The ...