Dexedrine is Used as A Treatment for Narcolepsy - Learn More About It
Dexedrine - Narcolepsy is a neurological condition most characterized by
Excessive Daytime Sleepiness (EDS), episodes of sleep and disorder of REM or
rapid eye movement sleep. It is a kind of dyssomnia.
Normally, when an
individual is awake, brain waves show a regular rhythm. When a person first
falls asleep, the brain waves become slower and less regular. This sleep state
is called non-rapid eye movement (NREM) sleep. After about an hour and a half of
NREM sleep, the brain waves begin to show a more active pattern again. This
sleep state, called rapid eye movement (REM) sleep, is when most remembered
dreaming occurs.
In narcolepsy, the order and length of NREM and REM
sleep periods are disturbed, with REM sleep occurring at sleep onset instead of
after a period of NREM sleep. Thus, narcolepsy is a disorder in which REM sleep
appears at an abnormal time. Also, some of the aspects of REM sleep that
normally occur only during sleep -- lack of muscular control, sleep paralysis,
and vivid dreams -- occur at other times in people with narcolepsy. For example,
the lack of muscular control can occur during wakefulness in a cataplexy
episode. Sleep paralysis and vivid dreams can occur while falling asleep or
waking up.
Simply put, the brain does not pass through the normal stages
of dozing and deep sleep but goes directly into (and out of) rapid eye movement
(REM) sleep. This has several consequences:
Nighttime sleep does not
include much deep sleep, so the brain tries to "catch up" during the day, hence
EDS
People with narcolepsy fall quickly into what appears to be very deep
sleep
They wake up suddenly and can be disoriented when they do
They
have very vivid dreams, which they often remember
People with narcolepsy
may dream even when they only fall asleep for a few seconds.
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