Narcolepsy was linked to high blood pressure, hyperlipidemia, and diabetes on top of outright cardiovascular disease events in a retrospective cohort study. Notably, patients with narcolepsy started ...

Narcolepsy is a rare condition that will make someone fall asleep abruptly — even in the middle of the day during an activity. It's possible to treat narcolepsy and manage your symptoms with lifestyle ...

Amanda Myers is a senior at the University of Florida majoring in pre-veterinary studies. She is also a competitive weightlifter, and a speaker for Project Sleep's Rising Voices of Narcolepsy program.

Narcolepsy with cataplexy, now known as type 1 narcolepsy, is a chronic neurological disorder that affects a person’s sleep-wake cycle and involves muscle weakness. The condition can cause a person to ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . People with narcolepsy were more likely to develop heart disease than propensity score-matched people without ...

Narcolepsy is a chronic sleep disorder characterized by overwhelming daytime drowsiness and sudden attacks of sleep. People with narcolepsy often find it difficult to stay awake for long periods of ...

That overwhelming sleepiness dragging you down might not just be from staying up too late scrolling through TikTok. While everyone occasionally battles the afternoon slump, people with hypersomnia or ...

I’ve felt tired my entire life. As a child, I would often fall asleep in unusual places and situations. I remember when I was in first grade, I woke up underneath my seat on the school bus. I must ...

“Narcolepsy has given us a thread we can pull on to unravel a lot about what underlies the systems that govern wakefulness and sleep,” he says. “Wakefulness is a pretty central process for everybody, ...

For years, Julie Flygare kept her condition private. She hadn’t liked people’s reactions on the occasions when she had opened up and shared her story. People thought it was a joke or not important. In ...

My sleepiness probably started in 2003, when I was an undergraduate at Brown University. I wrote it off as the byproduct of a busy academic and varsity sports schedule, but the muscle weakness that ...