(Sophie Filippova/Tetra images RF/Getty Images) It's clear dementia and sleep disturbances are intertwined, but the ...

Diagnosing narcolepsy can sometimes be challenging, but in the hands of a sleep specialist, it can be done. Narcolepsy is a chronic sleep disorder that involves your brain’s ability to regulate your ...

Orexin, also known as hypocretin, is a brain hormone that helps regulate sleep. A deficiency of this hormone can cause a person to develop type 1 narcolepsy. Type 1 narcolepsy, formerly known as ...

What do you know about narcolepsy? As a rare sleep disorder, you might not have heard much about it, or if you have, your perception may have been formed by the limited portrayals in media. Several ...

Perhaps because we all need sleep, we have an enduring interest in tales of people who sleep continuously or cannot stay awake – popular characters such as Sleeping Beauty and Rip Van Winkle are just ...

My sleepiness probably started in 2003, when I was an undergraduate at Brown University. I wrote it off as the byproduct of a busy academic and varsity sports schedule, but the muscle weakness that ...