Narcolepsy Specialists in Park Circus, Kolkata, West Bengal
Narcolepsy is a chronic neurological disorder that affects the brain's ability to regulate normal sleep-wake cycles, causing overwhelming and often uncontrollab…
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Causes of Narcolepsy
Primarily caused by a deficiency of hypocretin, a brain chemical that regulates wakefulness, believed 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.