Narcolepsy
Narcolepsy is a neurological disorder that affects
the control of sleep and wakefulness; it is characterized by sudden sleep
attacks. Usually it begins from 15 and 25. According to medicine net estimates
that approximately 125,000 to 200,000 Americans suffer from narcolepsy, but
only fewer than 50,000 are properly diagnosed. People think that Narcolepsy is genetically.
Narcolepsy symptoms are: excessive daytime sleepiness, cataplexy, hypnagogic
hallucinations, sleep paralysis, disturbed nocturnal sleep, automatic behavior
and other complaints as blurred vision, double vision, or droopy eyelids.
Scientists have been researching about what causes narcolepsy and they came to
a conclusion that a cause of narcolepsy is the abnormality of a cell which are
located in the brain. The treatment that a patient is required to have when he
or she have narcolepsy is drugs and behavioral therapies. They are actually
individual treatments depending on the person that has it. In psychology I saw
a video where a man suffered from narcolepsy, this man slept in whatever place
he was, even if he was walking in the streets he would just shut down a sleep. When
he was washing the plates he literally falls asleep. He had to use a helmet so
that way he wouldn’t receive any injuries in his head.
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