What Are Narcoleptic Drugs?
A recent study has found that people with narcolepsy do not experience a short phase of muscle paralysis that is part of a normal sleep pattern. During the rapid eye movement sleep phase, the brain is very active but the major muscle groups are frozen. Researchers say that many narcoleptics do not experience the muscle paralysis phase of REM sleep. Instead their arms and legs move more than expected during normal sleep.
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