Though I’ve sometimes experienced insomnia, the sleep disorder on the other end of the spectrum, narcolepsy, is foreign, though intriguing, to me. I recently came across a new study that sheds some light on the cause of the disorder.
Narcolepsy affects about one in 2,000 people, and researchers are coming closer to understanding this disease characterized by daytime drowsiness, irregular sleep at night and a sudden loss of muscle tone and strength.
According to researchers at Stanford, Narcolepsy is an auto-immune disease.
The new study was published online at Nature Genetics.
The researchers discovered that a specific variation of a gene belonging to T …read more