Narcolepsy

Although people with the disorder do not fall face-first into their soup as in the movies, narcolepsy is still a mysterious disease. But science has new leads

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Brainstem Mechanisms Generating REM Sleep. Jerome M. Siegel in Principles and Practice of Sleep Medicine. Third edition. Edited by Meir H. Kryger, Thomas Roth and William C. Dement. W. B. Saunders, 2000.

Sleep and Dreaming. Alan Rechtschaffen and Jerome M. Siegel in Principles of Neural Science. Fourth edition. Edited by Eric R. Kandel, James H. Schwartz and Thomas M. Jessell. McGraw-Hill, 1999.

Encyclopedia of Sleep and Dreaming. Edited by Mary A. Carskadon. Macmillan, 1993.

JEROME M. SIEGEL is a professor of psychiatry and a member of the Brain Research Institute at the University of California at Los Angeles Medical Center. He is also chief of neurobiology research at the Sepulveda Veterans Affairs Medical Center. He is a former president of the Sleep Research Society and chair of the Associated Professional Sleep Societies. His other research interests include the evolution and function of REM sleep and the effects of sleep deprivation and apnea.

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Scientific American Magazine Vol 282 Issue 1This article was published with the title “Narcolepsy” in Scientific American Magazine Vol. 282 No. 1 ()
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