Narcolepsy is a rare condition that will make someone fall asleep abruptly — even in the middle of the day during an activity. It's possible to treat narcolepsy and manage your symptoms with lifestyle ...

The Maintenance of Wakefulness Test (MWT) measures daytime sleepiness. It’s used to diagnose conditions like narcolepsy and to assess the effectiveness of treatment for conditions like sleep apnea. If ...

That overwhelming sleepiness dragging you down might not just be from staying up too late scrolling through TikTok. While everyone occasionally battles the afternoon slump, people with hypersomnia or ...

DARIEN, IL - A new study shows that many adolescents with excessive daytime sleepiness consistent with a clinical diagnosis of narcolepsy test positive for marijuana, emphasizing the importance of ...

One woman shares about the narcolepsy symptoms that disrupted her life, and the journey to a diagnosis: "I'm living proof you ...

Jay Cook, 24, was in high school when she started to experience sudden bouts of sleepiness. "I was taking community college classes, and I'd drive 20 minutes away to the community college and come ...

Narcolepsy is a chronic sleep condition that is rare in children. It can severely affect a child’s daily life and mental health. This article looks at the prevalence of narcolepsy during childhood in ...

If you are unusually sleepy during the day when you should be awake, your doctor might recommend you have a multiple sleep latency test (MSLT). Sometimes, it’s also called a daytime nap study. While ...

Sleep latency, or sleep onset latency, is the time it takes for you to go from being fully awake to sleeping. Sleep latency and the time it takes to reach rapid eye movement sleep (REM sleep) are ...

Julie Flygare was 21 when the symptoms started. First her knees would buckle briefly, but only when she laughed. She awoke one night to the sight of a burglar attacking her, while she lay paralyzed ...