Some weaknesses are not to be admitted: stupidity, say, or narcolepsy.

有些弱点是不能承认的：比如愚蠢或嗜睡症。

What can be done to help those suffering from narcolepsy?

可以做些什么来帮助那些患有发作性睡病的人？

And kind of its opposite, narcolepsy, whose sufferers sometimes experience brief, uncontrollable attacks of overwhelming sleepiness, called " sleep attacks" .

以及它的反面，嗜睡。嗜睡者有时会经历不受控制的困意，称为" 睡意侵袭" 。

No. You can't die of insomnia. - What about narcolepsy?

不 失眠症不会死人的 - 那嗜睡症呢？

Many hypersomniacs suffer from narcolepsy, for which the primary symptom is excessive daytime sleepiness.

许多嗜睡症患者患有发作性睡病，其主要症状是白天过度嗜睡。

Her injury caused her to experience sleeping spells, which we know of today as narcolepsy, for the rest of her life.

她的受伤导致她余生都经历着睡眠咒语，也就是如今我们所知的嗜睡症。

What's interesting is that a person with narcolepsy may experience certain amounts of automatic behavior during an episode.

有趣的是，发作性睡病患者可能会在发作期间经历一定数量的自动行为。

We know narcolepsy with cataplexy, which has a very clear cause-- you know, it's a deficit in orexin, and so forth.

我们知道伴有猝倒症的发作性睡病有一个非常明确的原因——你知道，这是食欲素缺乏等。

And specific conditions - like narcolepsy, obstructive sleep apnea and depression - can elevate your risk of REM abnormalities, Dr. Dasgupta said.

达斯古普塔博士说，特定的情况——如发作性睡病、阻塞性睡眠呼吸暂停和抑郁症——可能会增加快速眼动睡眠异常的风险。

Whether a person has cataplexy associated with their narcolepsy or not is the main determinant of the type of narcolepsy that they have.

一个人是否患有与发作性睡病相关的猝倒症是他们所患发作性睡病类型的主要决定因素。

There are two main types of narcolepsy: Type 1, which was previously termed narcolepsy with cataplexy, and Type 2, previously called narcolepsy without cataplexy.

发作性睡病有两种主要类型：1 型，以前称为发作性睡病伴猝倒， 以及 2 型， 以前称为无猝倒性发作。

In August, the FDA approved the first treatment for IH, a drug that was already approved to treat sleepiness and sudden loss of muscle tone in people with narcolepsy.

8 月，FDA 批准了 IH 的第一种治疗方法，该药物已被批准用于治疗发作性睡病患者的嗜睡和肌肉张力突然丧失。

Sleep paralysis is thought to be caused by sleep deprivation, certain medications, sleep disorders like sleep apnea and narcolepsy, stress, and altered sleep patterns, like working night shifts.

睡眠麻痹被认为是由睡眠剥夺、 某些药物、睡眠障碍（ 如睡眠呼吸暂停和发作性睡病） 、 压力和睡眠模式改变（如夜班工作） 引起的。

Adderall is also used to help treat narcolepsy — a sleep disorder that can cause you to be super sleepy during the day and have sudden instances of sleep.

Adderall 还用于帮助治疗发作性睡病——一种睡眠障碍，会导致您在白天超级困倦并突然入睡。

The intense drowsiness that a person can experience with narcolepsy may come on suddenly, causing people to unwillingly fall asleep even if they are in the middle of doing something.

患有发作性睡病的人可能会突然感到强烈的困倦，导致他们即使正在做某事也不愿意入睡。

In addition to sensory deprivation, recreational and therapeutic drugs, conditions like epilepsy and narcolepsy, and psychiatric disorders like schizophrenia, are a few of the many known causes of hallucinations, and we're still finding new ones.

除了感官功能缺失、服用消遣及治疗性药物之外，癫痫和发作性睡病等疾病，以及精神分裂症等精神失调都是已知的能够导致幻觉的原因，而我们仍在探索其他原因。

In addition to sensory deprivation, recreational and therapeutic drugs, conditions like epilepsy and narcolepsy, and psychiatric disorders like schizophrenia, are a few of the many known causes of hallucinations, and we’re still finding new ones.

除了感官剥夺、娱乐性和治疗性药物、癫痫和发作性睡病等疾病以及精神分裂症等精神疾病，这些都是导致幻觉的众多已知原因中的一小部分，我们仍在寻找新的原因。

Currently, research is being done on the genetic and environmental factors that may cause narcolepsy, as well as on how abnormalities in the immune system may play a role in the development of narcolepsy.

目前，正在研究可能导致发作性睡病的遗传和环境因素，以及免疫系统异常如何在发作性睡病的发展中发挥作用。

If you do have narcolepsy and you're comfortable with sharing your story, let me know in the comment section below Curious to know what would happen if you never changed your bed sheets?

如果您确实患有发作性睡病并且乐于分享您的故事，请在下面的评论部分告诉我想知道如果您从不更换床单会发生什么？

It's something we have developed with patient with narcolepsy, which is a another disorder when people are sleepy all the time, and they used it a lot to change their nightmare to make them more agreeable.

这是我们与嗜睡症患者一起开发的东西，这是另一种当人们一直昏昏欲睡时的疾病，他们经常用它来改变他们的噩梦，让他们变得更加愉快。