Mastodawn

Skin temperature signals processed by the #brain serve as a biological switch that determines whether the body enters REM sleep or experiences #cataplexy (muscle paralysis while awake).
#Neuroscience #Medical #sflorg
https://www.sflorg.com/2026/02/ns02102601.html

How skin temperature triggers either dreaming or muscle paralysis

Sleep is an essential component of our physical and mental health.

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#StarTrek permea la #ciencia actual de tal manera que es imposible que los nerds no los saquemos a colación cuando se habla/discute con la #prensa.

Por ejemplo, hoy hablando con los de #UnoTV sobre #MedicinaDelDormir hablamos de los #Tribbles y la auto inmunidad 🖖🏽

#Science #Press #SleepMedicine #Narcolepsy #Cataplexy #Orexin #AutoImmune #Neurology #Hypocretin #TheTroubleWithTribbles

#SleepWellAndLiveLong #LLAP

lollonero Aug 8, 2023

So last week I rediscovered that I love folding via origami, it really helps me calm down.
To top it off at the end, my body folded a couple times #cataplexy #narcolepsy

signerinkbeast Jul 19, 2023

I owe quite a bit of my current enjoyment of video games to my #3DS. In 2020, when my #cataplexy was better managed & I quit the entrainment process for my #CRSD, and the pandemic began, I was forced to contend with how unsafe I felt at home. I had to process the fact that how I approached doing the simplest things, like watching TV or videos, listening to music, or playing video games, was radically different for most of my life. (continued in replies)

signerinkbeast Jul 18, 2023

It's been a while since I've been able to be relaxed & tired enough to trigger a #cataplexy episode, but I managed to be able to do so yesterday. Ended up not being able to #read my #book. The old classic combo of lying in bed under a weighted blanket, with my #plush seal, Chortle, in my arms, who's also wrapped in an afghan, & rain pouring hard outside. Plus my cat settling in my bed, touching my back, & poor sleep=cataplexy. I kept losing muscle tone in my hands, lol. I fell asleep instead.

signerinkbeast Jul 13, 2023

I try to keep shenanigans with sleep to a minimum. I live with #N24, #cataplexy w/o narcolepsy, and #hypersomnia. But I still do things against wherever my free-running circadian rhythm is, because life just requires that sometimes for better or worse. Yesterday I finished a book called "Our Woman in Moscow". Today I stayed up late for errands. Sleep has been a bit shit this week & my body punishes me with the muscles aches you get after exercise, but you feel it all over, esp. in joints.

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Christal Jun 11, 2023

I keep multiple locks on doors because of sleep walking and sleep talking. I've been found fumbling with locks and car keys in my hand. Whether I would be capable of actually unlocking or driving, I don't know but wandering about is entirely possible. I take the knobs off the stove after cooking (usually, sometimes I forget) and keep an open floor plan in case of seizures or #Cataplexy .

Mark Patterson, MD, PhD Jun 11, 2023

We #medical professionals must do a better job at diagnosing patients with #sleep problems, especially #narcolepsy and #cataplexy. Diagnostic delays of 5+ years have a devastating impact on one's life.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/wellness/2023/06/10/sleep-problems-medical-mysteries/

Medical Mysteries: Why was her sleep so frighteningly out of whack?

For years her sleep was so disrupted she would suddenly drop off in the middle of working or even driving but have insomnia at night. Meds didn't seem to help.

The Washington Post

Christal Jun 8, 2023

It took two weeks of being with the pubic for me to get sick. That's all. Two weeks.

Bunch of dirty birds.

So now with my #Narcolepsy fully flared I get to go in public and risk abuse by strangers because every time I have #Cataplexy one of you weirdos beat the shit out of me.

Christal Jun 8, 2023

Did I mention that at the psyche hospital the psyche nurses were so uneducated they mixed up #Cataplexy with #Catatonia and forcibly shot me with medication and strapped me down calling me anxious and paranoid after I questioned their knowledge?

Yep, never challenge a narcissist with power over your body. Then the guards dragged my limp body down a hall to strap me down because I couldn't walk.

#psychology