MSS141 Questions for The Promise of Sleep, Dement, pp. 194-207

Narcolepsy

1.  What are hypnogogic hallucinations?

2.  What is narcolepsy?  Symptoms and effects?  What is happening on a neurophysiological level to the narcoleptic?

3.  What can trigger a sleep attack?

4.  What do studies of narcoleptic dogs suggest about the disease?

5.  How is narcolepsy treated?