'My narcolepsy means I have to have to nap for FOUR hours a day': Mother says she's so tired she has fallen asleep ON a moped and next to loud speakers
Claire Metters, 38, from North Wales, has narcolepsy, which means she faces a daily battle to stay awake for her children - Lucie, seven, and Aimee, 12. (Source: the Mail online | Health)
Source: the Mail online | Health - April 16, 2014 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
New Edition of International Classification of Sleep Disorders Available
The American Academy of Sleep Medicine (AASM) has released the 3rd edition of the International Classification of Sleep Disorders (ICSD-3) as an eBook in its resource library.
This authoritative text is used by clinicians and researchers alike for the diagnosis and treatment of sleep disorders. The previous edition was published in 2005. It is the collective opinion of sleep experts from the AASM who determine the names, symptoms, and diagnostic features of the most common sleep problems. These disorders are divided into six broad categories that include:
Insomnia
Sleep-related Breathing Disorders (snoring, sleep apne...
Source: About Sleep Disorders - March 14, 2014 Category: Sleep Medicine Source Type: news
ANH-Intl News Alerts
Compensation for vaccine damage, Seralini speaks out, statin cover-up, plastics in US food, mammogram failure, seed freedom and EU childhood obesity (Source: Alliance for Natural Health)
Source: Alliance for Natural Health - March 5, 2014 Category: Complementary Medicine Authors: Yvonne Tags: ADA advertising Azodicarbonamide biodiversity breast cancer breast screening childhood obesity cholesterol europe GMO industrial plastic international Jerome Burn mammograms narcolepsy Navdanya Pandemrix rat feeding study Source Type: news
Blood Test May Be Closer for Narcolepsy
Recent advances by Dr. Emmanuel Mignot's research group at Stanford University may move us closer to being able to diagnose narcolepsy with a blood test, as discussed in a recent piece on The Huffington Post.
Historically, narcolepsy has been difficult to diagnose and prior to the identification of its cause, was often dismissed as a psychiatric manifestation. The condition is relatively rare, affecting 1 in 2,000 people. It is characterized by excessive daytime sleepiness, hallucinations associated with sleep transitions, sleep paralysis, and often cataplexy. Cataplexy is weakness that may manifest as knee buckling o...
Source: About Sleep Disorders - February 25, 2014 Category: Sleep Medicine Source Type: news
Narcolepsy - Mayer G.
Narcolepsy is a rare sleep disorder. The classical presentation includes the four symptoms excessive daytime sleepiness, cataplexy, sleep paralysis and hypnagogic hallucinations. As a model disease with all the transitions from awake to sleeping conditions... (Source: SafetyLit: All (Unduplicated))
Source: SafetyLit: All (Unduplicated) - January 23, 2014 Category: Global & Universal Tags: Distraction, Fatigue, Chronobiology, Vigilance, Workload Source Type: news
Jazz Pharmaceuticals Buys Aerial BioPharma Sleep Drug
Aerial could make up to $400M pending milestones on ADX-N05, a narcolepsy drug (Source: PharmaManufacturing.com)
Source: PharmaManufacturing.com - January 21, 2014 Category: Pharmaceuticals Source Type: news
Anti-swine flu vaccination linked to increased risk of narcolepsy in young adults
(Wiley) Pandemrix is an influenza vaccination, created in 2009 to combat H1N1, known as Swine Flu. Now, a team of Swedish clinicians testing the vaccine for links to immune-related or neurological diseases have linked Pandemrix to an increased risk of narcolepsy in young adults. (Source: EurekAlert! - Infectious and Emerging Diseases)
Source: EurekAlert! - Infectious and Emerging Diseases - January 21, 2014 Category: Infectious Diseases Source Type: news
Narcolepsy Drug Shows Promise in Depression Treatment
A shift toward including sleep therapy as part of standard treatment for depression stands poised to make a profound change in how we deal with depression, and with it a significant improvement for many the many patients who aren’t finding sufficient remedy in current therapies.read more (Source: Psychology Today Depression Center)
Source: Psychology Today Depression Center - January 9, 2014 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Michael J. Breus, Ph.D. Tags: Depression Sleep anti-depressant and sleep CBT cognitive behavioral therapy depression and sleep Dr. Breus michael breus modafinal narcolepsy narcolepsy treatment sleep problems sleep research sleep study sleep therapy sleep Source Type: news
Thursday consumer health tips
How to tame your salt habit New year is a good time for cancer survivors to make new plan What is narcolepsy? Symptoms of a ruptured eardrum Facial hair: hirsutism (Source: Mayo Clinic Health Information)
Source: Mayo Clinic Health Information - January 9, 2014 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Gene Might Be Linked to Sleep Disorder Narcolepsy
Title: Gene Might Be Linked to Sleep Disorder NarcolepsyCategory: Health NewsCreated: 1/6/2014 2:35:00 PMLast Editorial Review: 1/7/2014 12:00:00 AM (Source: MedicineNet Sleep General)
Source: MedicineNet Sleep General - January 7, 2014 Category: Sleep Medicine Source Type: news
Study supports a causal role in narcolepsy for a common genetic variant
(American Academy of Sleep Medicine) A new study conducted across Europe found an extraordinary association between narcolepsy and a specific gene variant related to the immune system. (Source: EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health)
Source: EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health - January 2, 2014 Category: Global & Universal Source Type: news
Study confirms narcolepsy as an autoimmune disease
A new study that offers some of the most compelling evidence to date for the idea of "mimicry," where the immune system attacks a body protein because of its similarity to a pathogen protein, confirms that narcolepsy is an autoimmune disease. (Source: Health News from Medical News Today)
Source: Health News from Medical News Today - December 20, 2013 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Sleep / Sleep Disorders / Insomnia Source Type: news
Top Stories: Breakthroughs of the Year, Narcolepsy, and Binary Math
Some of our favorite stories of the week (Source: ScienceNOW)
Source: ScienceNOW - December 20, 2013 Category: Science Source Type: news
New Insights Into Sleeping Disorder Narcolepsy
Title: New Insights Into Sleeping Disorder NarcolepsyCategory: Health NewsCreated: 12/18/2013 2:35:00 PMLast Editorial Review: 12/19/2013 12:00:00 AM (Source: MedicineNet Sleep General)
Source: MedicineNet Sleep General - December 19, 2013 Category: Sleep Medicine Source Type: news
Scientists start to unpick narcolepsy link to GSK flu vaccine
LONDON (Reuters) - Scientists have found that the sleep disorder narcolepsy can sometimes be triggered by a scientific phenomenon known as "molecular mimicry", offering a possible explanation for its link to a GlaxoSmithKline H1N1 pandemic flu vaccine. (Source: Reuters: Health)
Source: Reuters: Health - December 18, 2013 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: healthNews Source Type: news
