NORTH KINGSTOWN, R.I., May 6 (AScribe Newswire) — Narcolepsy Network announced today to its members and supporters newly published research that clearly establishes that narcolepsy is an auto-immune disorder.
An autoimmune component has been long suspected in narcolepsy, leading in the mid-1980s to a Japanese study which associated narcolepsy with a specific immune system marker.
In a [...]
LYING rigid on the dancefloor, Louise Downham couldn’t move a muscle. Out clubbing with her mates, she had suddenly crumpled to the ground – unable to get back up.
“I was conscious, but I couldn’t move,” remembers the mum-of-three. “The one bonus was that the entire Cambridge United squad were in there, back in the days [...]
Scientists funded by the National Institutes of Health have identified a gene associated with narcolepsy, a disorder that causes disabling daytime sleepiness, sleep attacks, irresistible bouts of sleep that can strike at any time, and disturbed sleep at night.
The gene has a known role in the immune system, which strongly suggests that autoimmunity, in [...]
A young man I’ll call Alex recently graduated from Harvard.
As a history major, Alex wrote about a dozen papers a semester. He also ran a student organization, for which he often worked more than forty hours a week; when he wasn’t on the job, he had classes.
Weeknights were devoted to all the schoolwork that he [...]