Learn about the key differences between hypersomnia and narcolepsy, their symptoms, treatments, and how they affect daily ...

Medically reviewed by Smita Patel, DO Hypersomnia and narcolepsy are both sleep disorders that cause excessive daytime ...

Dream sleep (Rapid Eye Movement sleep or REM sleep) phenomena occur at odd times. There are two types of narcolepsy, Type 1 and Type 2. In Type 1 there is loss of a hypothalamic neurochemical orexin ...

The study reviewed US medical claims databases from 2005 to 2021 and compared CVD outcomes in narcolepsy patients and non-narcoleptic controls.

Narcolepsy is a chronic neurological sleep disorder that disrupts the brain’s ability to regulate sleep-wake cycles, leading to sudden sleep attacks, fragmented nighttime sleep, and overwhelming ...

Narcolepsy was linked to high blood pressure, hyperlipidemia, and diabetes on top of outright cardiovascular disease events in a retrospective cohort study. Notably, patients with narcolepsy ...

In the phase 3 SYMPHONY trial, which included 90 patients with type 1 narcolepsy, those randomly assigned to receive AXS-12 had a significantly greater decrease in cataplexy attacks at week 5 ...

ALKS 2680 is the company's novel, investigational, oral, selective orexin 2 receptor (OX2R) agonist in development as a once-daily treatment for narcolepsy type 1, narcolepsy type 2 and IH ...