Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Narcolepsy is a condition that can have a huge psychological, social and physical impact on those who have it. It is characterised ...

One of my first jobs was to keep a lookout for lions. There are some occupations that are not suitable for someone with untreated narcolepsy and this is probably one of them. I was 22, a recent ...

Geraldine Gruszczyk lives with narcolepsy with cataplexy, a disorder triggered by intense emotions. "The first time my body ...

She couldn't stay awake — at her desk, at gymnastics, anywhere. It took two years and a string of doctors to name it.

Wakix (pitolisant) is a prescription drug that’s used to treat certain symptoms of narcolepsy. Wakix comes as tablets that you swallow. Wakix is used in adults to treat the following narcolepsy ...

“When I was young, students would use drugs to check out. Now they’re using them to check in,” says Annan Chatterjee, a professor of neurology at the University of Pennsylvania who has long studied ...

The disorder often hides behind other diagnoses.

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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 ...