Is this a real disease??!
Question: In the movie Awakenings, the patients in the movie suffer from a disease that they refered to as the sleeping disease, and said that the patients were catatonic. if it is a real disease can you give me more information about it.
Answers: In the movie Awakenings, the patients in the movie suffer from a disease that they refered to as the sleeping disease, and said that the patients were catatonic. if it is a real disease can you give me more information about it.
Yes it is real, it is based on a true story!
Encephalitis lethargica
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Encephaliti...
There is a disease called Narcolepsy where people fall asleep at any random time through out the day... it limits driving and just your going about of a normal lifestyle. very sad
idk i know there is a "african sleeping sickness" ?
the only sleeping diseas i am awake of is chronic fatigue syndrome what is catatonic?
search it through google or something that way you see the diffrent types of info it has
Yes, there is a disease call sleeping sickness. It is cause by the tsetse fly in areas of Africa. The other type is referred to as encephalitis lethargica.
Sleep and Disease
Sleep and sleep-related problems play a role in a large number of human disorders and affect almost every field of medicine. For example, problems like stroke and asthma attacks tend to occur more frequently during the night and early morning, perhaps due to changes in hormones, heart rate, and other characteristics associated with sleep. Sleep also affects some kinds of epilepsy in complex ways. REM sleep seems to help prevent seizures that begin in one part of the brain from spreading to other brain regions, while deep sleep may promote the spread of these seizures. Sleep deprivation also triggers seizures in people with some types of epilepsy.
Neurons that control sleep interact closely with the immune system. As anyone who has had the flu knows, infectious diseases tend to make us feel sleepy. This probably happens because cytokines, chemicals our immune systems produce while fighting an infection, are powerful sleep-inducing chemicals. Sleep may help the body conserve energy and other resources that the immune system needs to mount an attack.
Sleeping problems occur in almost all people with mental disorders, including those with depression and schizophrenia. People with depression, for example, often awaken in the early hours of the morning and find themselves unable to get back to sleep. The amount of sleep a person gets also strongly influences the symptoms of mental disorders. Sleep deprivation is an effective therapy for people with certain types of depression, while it can actually cause depression in other people. Extreme sleep deprivation can lead to a seemingly psychotic state of paranoia and hallucinations in otherwise healthy people, and disrupted sleep can trigger episodes of mania (agitation and hyperactivity) in people with manic depression.
Sleeping problems are common in many other disorders as well, including Alzheimer