Narcolepsy and odor: preliminary report.

Blockade of mitral/tufted cell habituation to odors by association with reward: a preliminary note.

Association of odor and reward during the early postnatal period modifies rat pup behavioral responses and olfactory bulb neural responses to subsequent presentations of that odor. Recent evidence has shown that olfactory bulb output neurons, mitral/tufted cells, receive convergent odor and reward inputs. The present report demonstrates that contiguous odor-reward pairings prevent mitral/tufted...

Assessment report Immunological differences of pandemic vaccines (review of hypothesis on Pandemrix and development of narcolepsy)

Case report of narcolepsy in a six-year-old child initially misdiagnosed as atypical epilepsy

SUMMARY This report describes a case of first-onset narcolepsy in a six-year-old female that was misdiagnosed as atypical epilepsy and other diagnoses at eight different hospitals over a period of 10 months before the correct diagnosis was made. The diagnosis of narcolepsy is more difficult in children because very few of them experience all four cardinal symptoms of narcolepsy - paroxysmal sle...

Positive Effects of Massage Therapy on a Patient with Narcolepsy

PURPOSE The purpose of this case report was to investigate the effects of massage therapy on the sleep patterns of a woman with narcolepsy. PARTICIPANT The 23-year-old woman's primary symptoms included excessive daytime sleepiness and periodic leg movements (PLM), which were associated with her diagnoses of both narcolepsy and cataplexy. INTERVENTION Five 45-minute massage therapy treatment...

Post-Traumatic Narcolepsy Associated with Thalamic/Hypothalamic Injury

Narcolepsy is now suggested as an autoimmune disorder.1 Autoimmune-mediated loss of hypocretin-producing neurons in the hypothalamus and resultant decreased hypocretin levels in the cerebrospinal fluid might be important to the etiology of narcolepsy. Recently, secondary causes such as infection, trauma, tumors, and H1N1 flu vaccination have been identified as causes or triggers of narcolepsy a...