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Sleep and Narcolepsy

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Originating from two Greek words, "narco" meaning numbness and "plesy" meaning to be paralyzed or paralysis, narcolepsy is a neurological sleep disorder where the individual has an overpowering need to plunge themselves into sleep. Cases and instances have been whispered about for eons, some of these cases were even commented on by Aristotle in his writings "Of Sleep and Sleeplessness [AriCE]. Its first definitive analysis was in 1877 by Carl Westphal and then again a year later in 1878 by Franz Fischer. Westphal and Fischer were German-born psychiatrists and neurologists who lived and practiced in Berlin in the late nineteenth century. As a neurological disorder, narcolepsy distresses the mechanism that controls sleep and wakefulness. Individuals with this disorder experience extreme daytime lethargy and sporadic, overwhelming incidents of sinking into sleep throughout the daytime. Some serious symptoms include firstly, excessive daytime sleepiness (EDS). Mostly, excessive daytime sleepiness restricts standard undertakings on a regular basis, whether or not a narcoleptic has had an adequate amount of sleep the evening before. Most of the stricken that suffer from excessive daytime sleepiness report a mental cloudiness, an absence of vitality and an inability to concentrate, recall delays, a dejected mood, and/or extreme fatigue. The secondary symptom is cataplexy, which is made up of an abrupt loss of muscle tone that brings with it feelings of feebleness and a loss of controlled muscle movement. It has ranged from garbled dialogue to total physical collapse, and is often prompted by powerful feelings such as shock, amusement, or rage. The third symptom is delusions. Typically, these hallucinatory episodes are intense and habitually terrifying. They primarily contain visual fantasies, but other senses have been reported to be entangled. Called hypnagogic hallucinations when associated with sleep inception and hypnopompic halluc

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