Narcolepsy type 1: an environment-influenced disease.

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BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE: Narcolepsy type 1 (NT1) is a chronic and non-progressive neurological disorder that frequently arises in childhood. NT1 is characterized by loss of physiological boundaries between wakefulness and sleep, excessive daytime sleepiness, cataplexy, sleep paralysis, and hypnagogic or hypnopompic hallucinations. Current evidence supports a complex multifactorial model in which NT1 results from...

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