Narcolepsy?!


Question: wat does this mean


Answers: wat does this mean

Narcolepsy is a neurological condition most characterized by Excessive Daytime Sleepiness (EDS).

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uncontrollable urge to sleep during the day.

Its a sleep disorder, where people can fall asleep all the time in any situation.

A person who has this falls asleep even when he does not want to. Like falling asleep while eating, driving.

It's a form of epilepsy. Instead of fits where you thrash about, narcolepts suddenly go into a deep sleep.

It is characterized by EDS, excessive daytime sleepiness and a narcoleptic will experience disturbed sleep at night. During the day, they have no control over when they fall asleep and can do so even when they are most excited. The word is derived from Narke in greek for numbness, stupor, and lepsis for attack, seizure.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Narcolepsy





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