Thursday 5 July 2012

Beauty sleep ... or Sleeping beauty?

Some people are always tired and sleepy; I think that´s quite normal nowadays because of our hectic lifestyle. However, there are others that can’t help having flash trips to the land of nod, no matter what they are doing, no matter what time of day.

Known as narcolepsy, this disease even if not very common reduces the sufferer’s quality of life to the extreme. Scientists have been trying to unravel its mysterious causes, they have come up with some culprits (for example, loss of a group of brain cells called orexin neurons) but unfortunately the investigation has still a long way to go.
Let’s wish for all the sleeping beauties to find their awakening kiss soon…

Curious about finding out how sleepy you are? Try the Epworth Sleepiness Scale test