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Health Encyclopedia: Narcolepsy Causes
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Narcolepsy is a neurological sleep disorder. It is not caused by mental illness or psychological problems. It is most likely the end result of a number of genetic abnormalities that affect specific biologic factors in the brain, coupled with an environmental trigger such as a virus.
Researchers are attempting to come up with a unifying theory involving genetic factors, autoimmunity, and deficiencies in hypocretin, a brain peptide that is important in regulating sleep. Most of the research c...
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Expert & Community Posts
Nerve Pain: Postherpatic Neuralgia
By Christina Lasich, MD , Health Expert...For years, it waits for an opportune time, when the immune system is low, to burst back on to... Read more »
The Hygiene Hypothesis: Does Cleanliness Cause Asthma?
By Rick Frea , Health Expert...bacteria in the first three months of life (when their immune system is still developing) were... Read more »
Modern Living & Our Immune System
By Kathleen MacNaughton , Health Expert...allergies and allergic asthma are all disorders of the immune system. Our immune system is... Read more »
Why vitamin D is so important for people with RA: Part 1
By Christine Miller , Health Expert...osteoarthritis. It may play a role in regulating the immune system. Low vitamin D levels... Read more »
Health Guide
Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Causes
...blood pressure Low blood sugar (hypoglycemia) Iron deficiency anemia A number of studies have found immune system irregularities in chronic fatigue syndrome patients. A particularly promising... Read more »Depression and Osteoporosis Linked in Women
...adrenalin. It is know that depressed people produce more adrenalin - adrenalin can over-stimulate the immune system. Compared to the others, the depressed women in this study had higher levels... Read more »Complementary and Alternative Medicine
...are going to be safe. We think of MS an autoimmune disease -- meaning that the body's military, or immune system, gets misdirected, and instead of attacking foreign invaders, like bacteria and... Read more »Cockroach Allergies
...where they stay inside because of safety concerns. What Causes the Allergic Reaction? The job of immune system cells is to find foreign substances such as viruses and bacteria and get rid of... Read more »Fatigue: Rheumatoid Arthritis's Inconvenient Truth Comic
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Medications
... condition in which the body's defense system (immune system) fails to recognize the body... Read more »
...corticosteroid hormone (glucocorticoid). It decreases your immune system's response to various... Read more »
...these conditions, the body's defense system (immune system) attacks healthy tissues.... Read more »
...corticosteroid hormone (glucocorticoid). It decreases your immune system's response to... Read more »
...MS, but it is thought to help by preventing your immune system from attacking the nerves in your... Read more »
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Immune System May Reject Stem Cells
August 21, 2008(Ivanhoe Newswire) -- New research strikes down the idea that the immune system is blind to the presence of foreign embryonic stem cells. Researchers... Read summary »
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June 02, 2008(Ivanhoe Newswire) -- During pregnancy, a new mom is conscious of her eating, drinking, exercise and exposure to cigarette smoke for the health of... Read summary »
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Stay Healthy With Sleep
December 16, 2008(Ivanhoe Newswire) -- The best way to stay healthy could be to get a good night's sleep. New research shows your immune system works in overdrive at... Read summary »
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