Narcolepsy is a relatively rare sleep disorder that causes a person to feel sleepy or fall asleep suddenly during the daytime hours. Between 135,000 and 200,000 people in the United States have ...

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Taylor Leamey wrote about all things wellness for CNET, specializing in mental health, sleep and nutrition coverage. She has invested hundreds of hours into studying and researching sleep and holds a ...

(BPT) – Imagine you haven’t slept in 72 hours and every step you take feels like you’re walking through wet cement. Then imagine you experience this feeling every day. This is how excessive daytime ...

Hypersomnia and narcolepsy are both sleep disorders that cause excessive daytime sleepiness and other changes in natural sleep-wake cycles. "Hypersomnia" actually refers to several sleep conditions ...

An investigational oral selective orexin receptor 2 agonist (oveporexton, Takeda) demonstrated significantly improved measures of wakefulness, sleepiness, and cataplexy in a phase 2b study of adults ...

Narcolepsy was not associated with increased mortality risk compared to not having the condition, even among patients with psychiatric comorbidities, a new retrospective cohort study showed. The ...