Narcolepsy With Cataplexy.

The article focuses on narcolepsy with cataplexy which is a serious chronic neuropsychiatric disorder that typically begins at an early age. It has the potential to greatly disrupt social, educational, and vocational development. Because of the nature of its symptoms for example, excessive daytime sleepiness, narcolepsy provides insights into the mechanisms regulating human sleep. Its universal symptom of daytime sleepiness probably contributes most substantially to the resulting impaired quality of life that has been documented. A specific and intriguing sign of narcolepsy is cataplexy a transient muscle weakness triggered by emotions. Other classic but nonspecific symptoms include sleep paralysis and hypnagogic hallucinations. Disturbed nocturnal sleep is the most recent addition to the classic symptom complex.