Narcolepsy

Room temperature, noises, light, or a hard or too soft of a bed can all effect Insomnia. Narcolepsy is a chronic disorder that can be inherited and is caused when a person falls asleep unexpectedly or suddenly. “Narco” means numbness and “lepsy” stands for seizure (Matzen, 2016). Someone with Narcolepsy can be having a conversation, playing a sport, or sitting in class and suddenly fall asleep. Narcolepsy can be very dangerous if an affected person is driving or working with tools and has a…

the disease partly, not completely. A disease that does not have a cure yet is called narcolepsy. The disease narcolepsy is a well-known disease that causes an individual to become sleepy during the daytime without noticing. These unequivocal entities could not control the excessive amount of sleepiness during the daytime. This disease is a neurological disorder that affects the components…

Unfortunately, sleep disorders can affect a person’s sleeping abilities. Narcolepsy is one example of a sleep disorder that will affect someone at night and through the day. Narcolepsy can be defined as a neurological disorder where the person experiences daytime sleepiness, usually at inappropriate times, cataplexy, hypnagogic hallucinations, and sleep paralysis. Researchers have recently discovered within the last ten years is that Narcolepsy can be caused from a lack of the…

Cases of Narcolepsy with Psychotic Disorders There have been many cases that have surfaced regarding how narcolepsy and a person’s psychotic characteristic are associated with one another. This article gave me great insight on how narcolepsy can actually be associated with schizophrenia and other disorders. Narcolepsy is a neurological disorder that deals with the loss of the brains ability to sleep. Some symptoms include: EDS, cataplexy, hallucinations, and sleep paralysis. Schizophrenia is a…

Classification of Sleep Disorders Sleep is important for a person to become healthy the average amount of sleep is about 8 hours. Unfortunately more than half, America is diagnosed with a sleeping disorder making the average time to exceed, decline, or in some cases to not exist. Sleeping disorders are on a spectrum ranging from deadly to not harmful, so if a sleep disorder is not harmful then why is it a disorder? A sleep disorder manipulates someone’s sleep pattern affecting their health.…

get sleep paralysis. Sleep paralysis can run in the family. It may be happening to you . If you find yourself not able to move for a few seconds or even a few minutes you might just have sleep paralysis. Treating any underlying conditions such as narcolepsy may help if you can't sleep well. Treating sleep paralysis won't be good because you will depend on the treatment. More than depending on your body, your cells, and your muscles but that's just my opinion. You could try a treatment that…

particular is very rare and can not be cured. Only 200,000 or less cases are diagnosed in the United States per year. The exact cause of narcolepsy has gone unknown for years. However, some researchers have discovered that it may involve genetic components and inconsistent triggering in the brain. It causes sleep attacks, degeneration of muscle tone and hallucinations. Narcolepsy begins to affect people between the ages of six to over sixty. Some of the symptoms include EDS, hallucinations, and…

the PSQI. PSQI-P reliability in our study were higher than Shochat Dsc et al. study(5). Similar to Shochat Dsc study our sample included a various clinical sleep disorders population such as insomnia, snoring, suspected obstructive sleep apnea, narcolepsy and hypersomnia. Our data suggest that poor sleep quality is a common findings in patients suspected to sleep apnea like previous studies(18)and other sleep disorders. Therefore, PSQI-P could be as a screener instrument and one of first line…

What is narcolepsy? Narcolepsy is a neurological disorder that effects your control to sleep, people with the disorder experience excessive daytime sleepiness. People have uncontrolled episodes of falling asleep during the day. Although this disorder usually begins between the ages of 15-25 it can become deceptive at any age. The sleep “attacks” can occur during any type of activity, at any time. In a typical sleep cycle, you enter many different stages of sleep throughout the night. You enter…

When a person goes to sleep, the brain normally causes the muscles of the body to relax and stay still. However, sleep paralysis is caused when parts of the REM state of sleep intrude into wakefulness. Approximately twenty percent of the general population experience episodes of isolated sleep paralysis. People who experience sleep paralysis often wake up and develop anxiety when they become aware of the fact that they are incapable of moving their bodies and also unable to speak. Some people…