Article: Narcolepsy
Gale Encyclopedia of Mental Disorders;      700+ words ...Narcolepsy Definition Narcolepsy is a disorder...uncontrollable sleep attacks, and cataplexy...Description Narcolepsy is the second-leadi...sleepiness and sleep attacks are the hallmarks...People with narcolepsy fall asleep suddenly...conversation. These sleep ...

Article: narcolepsy
The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition;      162 words ......unwanted episodes of sleep ( sleep attacks ). People with narcolepsy may abruptly fall asleep...in the United States have narcolepsy; it occurs about equally...females. Most people with narcolepsy also experience cataplexy...

Article: Sleep Disorders
Gale Encyclopedia of Alternative Medicine;      700+ words ......early hours of the morning. Narcolepsy is a dyssomnia characterized by recurrent "sleep attacks" (abrupt loss of consciousness...again several hours later. Narcolepsy has three major symptoms...About 40% of patients with narcolepsy have or have had another mental disorder. Although ...

Article: Medialink: Actor Isaiah Washington of Grey's Anatomy Raises Awareness of Narcolepsy.
Business Wire;  April 4, 2006 ;     191 words ...Grey's Anatomy star Isaiah Washington is working with the Narcolepsy Network on the first-ever national campaign to increase understanding of narcolepsy. Narcolepsy is a sleep disorder that affects approximately 200,000 people in the...

Article: Stanford Researchers Nab Gene for Sleep Disorder.
Business Wire;  August 5, 1999 ;     700+ words ......gene that causes the sleep disorder narcolepsy -- a breakthrough that brings a cure...species besides humans known to develop narcolepsy. Mignot predicts the finding will not...roughly 135,000 Americans who suffer from narcolepsy, but in time it will shed light on two...

Article: New Data Highlighting Xyrem as an Emerging Treatment for Excessive Daytime Sleepiness in Narcolepsy Presented at Annual Sleep Meeting.
Business Wire;  June 9, 2004 ;     700+ words ......daytime sleepiness (EDS) associated with narcolepsy was held last night in conjunction with...excessive daytime sleepiness associated with narcolepsy. Xyrem is the first and only approved...of cataplexy, a prominent symptom of narcolepsy. The trial evaluated improvement in...

Article: Understanding narcolepsy.(SLEEP MEDICINE)
FOCUS: Journal for Respiratory Care & Sleep Medicine;  March 22, 2004 ;     700+ words ......what narcolepsy is. Research has associated narcolepsy with the antigen HLA DQB 1*0602. The HLA complex...though there is a high correlation between narcolepsy and this HLA, most people with HLA DQB 1*0602 don't develop narcolepsy. New research has shown that a human narcoleptic...neither ...

Article: Neurocrine Biosciences, Inc. Announces Nature Medicine Narcolepsy Publication; Absence of Hypocretin is Seen to be a Cause of Narcolepsy.
Business Wire;  August 29, 2000 ;     700+ words ......1 issue of Nature Medicine, linking narcolepsy with the deficiency of an important...entitled A mutation in early onset narcolepsy and a generalized absence of hypocretin...authors found that in most patients with narcolepsy, there was no genetic defect for either...

Article: DRAXIS Launches Alertec for the Treatment of Narcolepsy.
Business Wire;  June 2, 1999 ;     441 words ......BUSINESS WIRE)--June 2, 1999-- First New Narcolepsy Medication Approved In Nearly 40 Years DRAXIS...excessive daytime sleepiness in patients with narcolepsy. Narcolepsy is a primary sleep disorder characterized...Alertec(TM) is an original, new medication for narcolepsy with a novel ...

Article: Narcolepsy: don't just sleep on it.
Medical Update;  July 1, 1990 ;     348 words ......thousands of Americans who suffer from narcolepsy, sleeping on the problem isn't such...totally aware of what just went on. Narcolepsy usually occurs in youths and young adults...for the disease, although persons with narcolepsy can be prescribed mild doses of a stimulant...

Article: Narcolepsy is an Autoimmune Disorder, Stanford Researcher Says.
Business Wire;  May 3, 2009 ;     700+ words ......the culprit behind the sleep disorder narcolepsy. Now Mignot and his collaborators have...confirming experts' long-held suspicion that narcolepsy is an autoimmune disease. The work...the main pieces of what's happening in narcolepsy, said Mignot, a Howard Hughes Medical...

Article: Orphan Medical Submits Xyrem sNDA to Include Improvement in Other Primary Symptoms of Narcolepsy; Approval Would Expand Addressable Market to Over $250 Million.
Business Wire;  January 18, 2005 ;     700+ words ......tone that is a debilitating symptom of narcolepsy. The sNDA is expected to expand the...improvement in the other primary symptoms of narcolepsy, specifically the reduction of excessive...treat all of the primary symptoms of narcolepsy. Prior to approval of Xyrem, antidepressants...

Article: deCODE obtains United States patent.(Brief Article)
BIOTECH Patent News;  June 1, 2002 ;     52 words ......receptor 2 (HCRTR2), which is associated with narcolepsy. Also described are methods of diagnosis of narcolepsy, pharmaceutical compositions comprising nucleic...HCRTR2 gene, as well as methods of therapy of narcolepsy. (US 6,410,712)

Article: ORPHAN MEDICAL SUBMITS XYREM SNDA TO FDA.
Biotech Business;  March 1, 2005 ;     700+ words ......tone that is a debilitating symptom of narcolepsy. The sNDA is expected to expand the...improvement in the other primary symptoms of narcolepsy, specifically the reduction of excessive...treat all of the primary symptoms of narcolepsy. Prior to approval of Xyrem, antidepressants...