Narcolepsy: A Rare Neurological Disorder, Symptoms, Cause and Treatment

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Narcolepsy A Rare Neurological Disorder

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• Narcolepsy A Rare Neurological Disorder
• Narcolepsy is a rare chronic neurological
  disorder affecting the nervous system. A nap
  after lunch is a habit of many people. But when
  the body loses its control to stay awake and
  people tend to sleep excessively it is
  categorized as Narcolepsy. The neurological
  disorder causes abnormal sleep affecting your
  quality of life.
• Narcolepsy affects the ability to wake up as well
  as sleep and you may have the uncontrolled
  excessive urge to sleep anytime. You may tend to
  fall asleep at any time of the day or during any
  activity which may be very dangerous. In the
  sleep cycle, the body enters different stages of
  sleep but people suffering from narcolepsy enter
  the rapid eye movement stage (deep sleep stage)
  immediately.

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Types of Narcolepsy

• Narcolepsy is categorized on basis of its
  severity. This includes
•    Type 1 - Narcolepsy with cataplexy. People
  usually are awake but experience sudden muscle
  weakness and lose control of the muscles in their
  face, arms, legs, or torso which causes slur
  words, have a sagging jaw, collapse, or slump
  over and be unable to move. This is usually
  caused due to the trigger of sudden strong
  emotion and may last for a few seconds or 2-3
  minutes. Caused due to a lack of hypocretin (a
  chemical that regulates wakefulness as well as
  rapid eye movement during sleep) in the brain.
•    Type 2  Narcolepsy without cataplexy. People
  experience extreme sleepiness, sleep attacks,
  hallucinations as well as might get paralysis
  while falling asleep or waking up.

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Cause of Narcolepsy

• Various reasons resulting from a combination of
  genetic and environmental factors lead to the
  development of narcolepsy. Some of these have
  been identified, but many remain unknown.
• Narcolepsy results from the loss of a
  neurotransmitter or chemical signal in the brain
  called hypocretin or orexins. The hypocretin is
  essential for regulating the sleep or wake-up
  cycle including the rapid eye movement (REM)
  sleep state. When there is a shortage of
  hypocretin, it can lead to excessive sleepiness,
  and features of REM sleep, which is also called
  dreaming sleep. This may become present during
  wakefulness.
• It has also been observed that changes in several
  genes, such as HLA-DQB1, influence the risk of
  developing narcolepsy. The genes HLA-DQB1 provide
  instructions for making part of a protein that
  plays an important role in the immune system. The
  variation in this gene is associated with people
  suffering from narcolepsy. Although, it is
  unclear how these genetic changes influence the
  risk of developing the condition.

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