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Sleep DisorderModerate
Narcolepsy
Sleep Medicine · Sleep Disorder
Moderate
Severity
Rare — affects about 1 in 2,000 people
Prevalence
No
Contagious
Sleep Medicine
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🔬Causes & Risk Factors
- 1Primarily caused by a deficiency of hypocretin
- 2a brain chemical that regulates wakefulness
- 3believed to result from an autoimmune process that destroys the neurons producing it. Genetic predisposition combined with environmental triggers such as certain infections is thought to initiate this autoimmune attack in susceptible individuals.
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