Narcolepsy and Orexins: An Example of Progress in Sleep Research
Narcolepsy is a chronic neurodegenerative disease caused by a deficiency of orexin-producing neurons in the lateral hypothalamus (LH). It is clinically characterized by excessive daytime sleepiness and by intrusions into wakefulness of physiological aspects of rapid eye movement (REM) sleep such as...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Frontiers Media S.A.
2011-04-01
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| Series: | Frontiers in Neurology |
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| Online Access: | http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fneur.2011.00026/full |