The 67-year-old has a sleep disorder called cataplexy, which is a symptom of narcolepsy. ❋ Unknown (2010)
Narcoleptics like Cloud also suffer from a bizarre condition called cataplexy, in which they can collapse in a heap on the ground, conscious but essentially paralyzed. ❋ Unknown (2008)
Carol Bell, 67, has a condition called cataplexy --it's a sleep disorder that causes temporary paralysis, and it's brought on by a particular emotion or feeling. ❋ Unknown (2010)
Individuals with the sleep disorder narcolepsy suffer with excessive daytime sleepiness and attacks of muscle paralysis triggered by strong emotions (a condition known as cataplexy). ❋ Unknown (2010)
The anticipation of the sugary cereal triggers one of the most striking symptoms of the disease: a temporary loss of muscle control called cataplexy, causing mice to drop in their tracks. ❋ Unknown (2009)
However, doctors can prescribe medications that can be effective in controlling excessive daytime sleepiness, cataplexy, and sleep disruption. ❋ Unknown (2010)
Attacks of cataplexy are sudden, brief losses of muscle control. ❋ Unknown (2010)
The four most common symptoms are excessive daytime sleepiness, cataplexy, sleep paralysis, and hypnagogic hallucinations. ❋ Unknown (2010)
Following the experience, I developed sleep apnea, narcolepsy and cataplexy. ❋ Unknown (2009)
The experiences of cataplexy and dreaming during wakefulness may be wrongly seen as a psychiatric problem. ❋ Unknown (2010)
Unlike cataplexy, touching the person usually causes the paralysis to disappear. ❋ Unknown (2010)
Telegraph (UK): Kay Underwood, 20, has cataplexy, which means that almost any sort of strong emotion triggers a dramatic weakening of her muscles. ❋ Unknown (2008)
I will say that that is the only time in my life that I've sat down from surprise, onto the floor, and I have an appreciation of T's cataplexy from that moment that is quite different from what I had before. ❋ Unknown (2010)
With the cash from the Eisai deal, he expects Arena to remain focused on drug development, noting its pipeline projects, including several cardiovascular treatments and a treatment for narcolepsy and cataplexy. ❋ Unknown (2010)
Tonight, on Is it Possible on the Discovery Channel, a dog with narcolepsy, complete with cataplexy--induced by "things that make dogs very happy"--like food and playing with their people. ❋ Unknown (2010)
Like most cataplexy sufferers, Ms Underwood is also battling narcolepsy — a condition that makes her drop off to sleep without warning. ❋ Unknown (2008)
Narcolepsy affects around 30,000 people in the UK and about 70 per cent of them also have cataplexy. ❋ Unknown (2008)
Not just because I do know the inverse square law (the difference between perigee and apogee, between catalepsy and cataplexy, distal and proxal, etc, etc, etc) and they maybe dont ... but because I can only consider anyone who "looks down on" anyone, regardless of what they do or dont know as a veritable "mousehole". ❋ Unknown (2009)
This mental condition, Catalepsy differs from cataplexy, which it is often confused with. ❋ Unknown (2008)
"Just the excitement of playing with them would cause the cataplexy to kick in," says Cloud, now president of the Narcolepsy Network, a support group. ❋ Unknown (2008)
