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What Is Narcolepsy? A Concise Pedagogy.

Narcolepsy is a neurological sleep disorder characterized by chronic, excessive attacks of drowsiness during the day, sometimes called excessive daytime sleepiness (EDS).

     Attacks of drowsiness may persist for only a few seconds or several minutes.

    These episodes vary in frequency from a few incidents to several during a single day.     

     Night-time (nocturnal) sleep patterns may also be disrupted.

      Narcolepsy also may be associated with “automatic behaviour”, i.e., doing something automatically without any memory afterward.

     The incidence of narcolepsy is approximately 1 in 2,000 and most researchers believe that the disorder remains undiagnosed or misdiagnosed in many affected individuals.

     There is increasing evidence that narcolepsy is an autoimmune disorder.

    In narcolepsy, the immune system destroys certain brain cells that produce a peptide called hypocretin which impacts on many brain functions, but the details of its actions are not yet understood.

   Thus, it is strived in this E-Booklet to describe concisely Aetiology, Clinical presentation, Diagnosis, Treatment, Culture along with a Dynamic List of Few Notable People with Narcolepsy.

…Dr. H. K. Saboowala.

              M.B.(Bom) .M.R.S.H.(London)