Cataplexy is a sudden, brief loss of voluntary muscle tone triggered by strong emotions such as laughter, excitement, anger or fear. There is a strong association between cataplexy and narcolepsy, a ...

Sleep is of absolute necessity for us humans, although if one falls asleep all of a sudden while being awoken, it would cause a big trouble. The brain is equipped with sleep mechanism and wakefulness ...

Cataplexy is a sudden episode of muscle weakness that occurs while fully aware and conscious. It can be triggered by emotional events, such as laughing, crying or fear, and is usually transient in ...

SAN DIEGO — The investigational drug AXS-12 (reboxetine, Axsome Therapeutics) is safe and effective for the treatment of cataplexy (emotionally induced muscle weakness) and excessive daytime ...

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The symptoms of narcolepsy vary widely between affected individuals, with some people experiencing frequent symptoms and others finding the condition rarely affects them. Some of the characteristic ...

Narcolepsy is a disorder caused by losing orexin neurons, marked by excessive daytime sleepiness and cataplexy, sudden weakening of muscle tone. Previously, we found two kinds of neurons preventing ...