Narcolepsy can lead to excessive daytime sleepiness, as well as cataplexy, a sudden loss of muscle tone. Other symptoms can include sleep paralysis and hallucinations that occur both during sleep ...

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 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 ...

Potential blockbusters and root-cause treatments from Eli Lilly, Merck, Takeda and others could get a regulatory nod this ...

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 ...

As a sleep specialist, I find it incredibly rewarding to treat people with narcolepsy. It can be unnerving to be diagnosed with the disorder. But it’s also a huge relief, because people finally know ...

(CNN) — Matthew Horsnell began falling asleep for no reason when he was in sixth grade. “I would go to bed at 8:30 at night, yet every morning I would wake up and struggle to get out of bed,” said ...

Pitolisant (Wakix) in children ages 6 years and up led to clinically meaningful improvements in narcolepsy symptoms in a phase III trial. Among 110 kids with narcolepsy with or without cataplexy, ...

The FDA has granted Breakthrough Therapy designation to alixorexton for the treatment of narcolepsy type 1 (NT1).

Aaron Schokman is a member of the Sleep Health Foundation’s Consumer Reference Council. He has also received funding from the American Academy of Sleep Medicine Foundation for narcolepsy related ...

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 ...

Narcolepsy is estimated to affect one in 2,000 people in the United States and some 3 million worldwide, according to the Narcolepsy Network, a non-profit patient advocacy group. However, that ...