Idiopathic hypersomnia and narcolepsy: what’s the difference?
© Shutterstock / Green ElkIn a recent video posted on Konbini, a young woman reports sleeping up to 6 p.m. ...
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Insomnia: “Taking sleeping pills should be completely transient”
On the occasion of World Sleep Day, Dr. Marc Rey, neurologist and president of the National Institute of Sleep and ...
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Narcolepsy: a very disabling hypersomnolence
Five percent of the population would be affected by this disease whose causes are still unknown. Sleep is vital but ...
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Sleeping Beauty Syndrome, the strange disease that makes you sleep for months
Far from being the heroine of a fairy tale, a 17-year-old Colombian teenager suffers from Kleine-Levin syndrome. Otherwise called Sleeping ...
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Victim of Kleine-Levin syndrome, a teenager from Landes sleeps up to 23 hours a day
The young man suffers from this rare neurological disease characterized by hypersomnia, cognitive and behavioral disorders. A disorder that mainly ...
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Stroke: more risk in heavy sleepers
Sleep is health. But sleeping too much can degrade it. A study links too long nights to an increased risk ...
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Winter depression: researchers have identified the culprit
Permanent sadness, hypersomnia, bulimia. Seasonal depression returns with fall. Researchers have finally understood its origin in the brain.She makes her ...
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Hypersomnia, extreme sleepiness
Difficulty staying awake during the day Are you so sleepy during the day that you can barely keep your eyes ...
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Sleeping 18 hours a day: Sleeping Beauty syndrome
For several months, people with this syndrome can sleep for up to 18 hours a day. For the first time, ...
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