Emmanuel Mignot wins Breakthrough Prize for discovering cause of narcolepsy
Sep 22, 2022 · The Stanford Medicine sleep researcher is honored for discovering the role of orexins in narcolepsy and paving the way to new sleep disorder therapies.
Scientists who discovered cause of narcolepsy win Breakthrough …
Sep 22, 2022 · Emmanuel Mignot and Masashi Yanagisawa have won the 2023 Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences for discovering the cause of narcolepsy, a lifelong disorder in which people suddenly fall asleep and...
Stanford researcher shows once-nightly narcolepsy drug is safe ...
Sep 8, 2021 · A new version of a narcolepsy drug that patients take once at bedtime — rather than at bedtime and again in the middle of the night — safely and effectively improved symptoms in a trial led by a researcher at Stanford Medicine.
Stanford scientist who discovered cause of narcolepsy wins …
Sep 22, 2022 · Dr. Emmanuel Mignot of the Stanford University School of Medicine will share the $3 million prize with Masashi Yanagisawa of Japan’s University of Tsukuba for discovering the cause of a chronic...
Stanford scientist who discovered cause of narcolepsy wins …
Stanford scientist who discovered cause of narcolepsy wins Breakthrough Prize. Solving a sleep mystery, Dr. Emmanuel Mignot of Stanford University helps pave the way for new treatments. Photo courtesy of Stanford Medicine, by Lenny Gonzalez Dr. Emmanuel Mignot with his dog, Watson, who has narcolepsy, in 2016.
Research revealing the main cause of narcolepsy named as …
Sep 23, 2022 · The two labs unravelled that narcolepsy is triggered in humans by the immune system attacking cells that produce orexin likely “mistaking” it for a viral particle, and their findings have led to...
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Oral Orexin Receptor 2 Agonist in Narcolepsy Type 1
Jul 26, 2023 · In a phase 2 trial involving patients with narcolepsy type 1, an orexin receptor 2 agonist resulted in greater improvements on measures of sleepiness and cataplexy than placebo over a period of 8...
Living with Narcolepsy: Current Management Strategies, Future Prospects ...
Jul 16, 2020 · Narcolepsy is a neurological disorder of the sleep-wake cycle characterized by excessive daytime sleepiness (EDS), cataplexy, nighttime sleep disturbances, and REM-sleep-related phenomena (sleep paralysis, hallucinations) that intrude into wakefulness.
Narcolepsy: Symptoms, treatment, and causes - Medical News Today
Nov 28, 2023 · Narcolepsy is a chronic sleep disorder wherein the brain cannot regulate the body's sleep-wake cycles. A person may fall asleep unexpectedly. Learn more here.