Traveling through some forums I have seen many people describing the symptoms of Narcolepsy either sleep paralysis, the need for sleep or rather, the uncontrollable desire to sleep during the day several times, fragmented sleep at night .... but what it does not stop visiting a doctor who [...]
2009 April 10 2009
Life in the Dream II
Narcolepsy is a set of symptoms among which are excessive daytime sleepiness, cataplexy, sleep paralysis, hypnagogic hallucinations and hypnopompic. This is called Gelineau syndrome. I want to draw attention in particular on Sleep Paralysis. I struggled to find literature, many in English but, the story of [...]
2009 April 3, 2009
Life in Sleep
In "Moulin Rouge", the Baz Luhrmann film, breaks a character who claims to be Argentine and have narcolepsy, eccentric detail that surely was skipped by most viewers. Gus Van Sant began his film "My Own Private Idaho" with one frame showing a dictionary in which we read "narcolepsy" and [...]
2009 April 3, 2009
Narcolepsy
Immunogenetics: MHC-narcolepsy association [edit] Crystal structure of HLA-DQ 0602 (molecule encoded by DQA1 * 0102/DQB1 * 0602) in conjunction with the peptide hypocretin (orexin). HLA-DQ 0602 confers strong susceptibility to narcolepsy, while protecting against Type I diabetes [3] [4] The genetic basis of narcolepsy already guessed from the first observation of Westphal [...]
