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Narcolepsy and emotional experience: a review of the literature.
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21 citing papers in PubMed, 43 citations in OpenAlex.
- Facial Emotion Recognition in Children With Narcolepsy Type 1.Journal of sleep research · 2026Article
- The association between dream activity and alexithymia during pregnancy: A cross-sectional study in a sample of pregnant women.Journal of sleep research · 2025Article
- Challenges and methodological considerations for research on the role of sleep stage transitions in altered affective processing.Sleep advances : a journal of the Sleep Research Society · 2025Article
- Navigating narcolepsy: exploring coping strategies and their association with quality of life in patients with narcolepsy type 1.Scientific reports · 2024Article
- Challenges in the Management of Narcolepsy in a Resource Limited Setting: A Case Report.Cureus · 2024Article
- Characterization of the Increase in Narcolepsy following the 2009 H1N1 Pandemic in Sweden.Journal of clinical medicine · 2024Article
- Theory of Mind impairment in childhood narcolepsy type 1: a case-control study.Brain communications · 2024Article
- Exploring the Literature on Narcolepsy: Insights into the Sleep Disorder That Strikes during the Day.NeuroSci · 2023Review
- The hypnagogic state: A brief update.Journal of sleep research · 2023Review
- Alexithymia, impulsiveness, emotion, and eating dyscontrol: similarities and differences between narcolepsy type 1 and type 2.Sleep and biological rhythms · 2023Article
- Amygdala neurocircuitry at the interface between emotional regulation and narcolepsy with cataplexy.Frontiers in neuroscience · 2023Review
- Abnormal Regional Spontaneous Neural Activity and Functional Connectivity in Unmedicated Patients with Narcolepsy Type 1: A Resting-State fMRI Study.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Article
- Exploring Addictive Online Behaviors in Patients with Narcolepsy Type 1.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022Article
- What about dreams? State of the art and open questions.Journal of sleep research · 2022Review
- Plasticity of the hypocretinergic/orexinergic system after a chronic treatment with suvorexant in rats. Role of the hypocretinergic/orexinergic receptor 1 as an autoreceptor.Frontiers in molecular neuroscience · 2022Article
- Dream Activity in Narcoleptic Patients During the COVID-19 Lockdown in Italy.Frontiers in psychology · 2021Article
- Narcolepsy with resolution of cataplexy and persisting orexin deficiency.Journal of clinical sleep medicine : JCSM : official publication of the American Academy of Sleep Medicine · 2020Article
- Giving a voice to cataplectic experience: recollections from patients with narcolepsy type 1.Journal of clinical sleep medicine : JCSM : official publication of the American Academy of Sleep Medicine · 2020Article
- Cognitions in Sleep: Lucid Dreaming as an Intervention for Nightmares in Patients With Posttraumatic Stress Disorder.Frontiers in psychology · 2020Article
- Narcolepsy Presentation in Diverse Populations: an Update.Current sleep medicine reports · 2020Review
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Abstract
Narcolepsy is a chronic sleep disorder characterized by excessive daytime sleepiness, cataplexy, hypnagogic hallucinations, and sleep paralysis. This disease affects significantly the overall patient functioning, interfering with social, work, and affective life. Some symptoms of narcolepsy depend on emotional stimuli; for instance, cataplectic attacks can be triggered by emotional inputs such as laughing, joking, a pleasant surprise, and also anger. Neurophysiological and neurochemical findings suggest the involvement of emotional brain circuits in the physiopathology of cataplexy, which seems to depending on the dysfunctional interplay between the hypothalamus and the amygdala associated with an alteration of hypocretin levels. Furthermore, behavioral studies suggest an impairment of emotions processing in narcolepsy-cataplexy (NC), like a probable coping strategy to avoid or reduce the frequency of cataplexy attacks. Consistently, NC patients seem to use coping strategies even during their sleep, avoiding unpleasant mental sleep activity through lucid dreaming. Interestingly, NC patients, even during sleep, have a different emotional experience than healthy subjects, with more vivid, bizarre, and frightening dreams. Notwithstanding this evidence, the relationship between emotion and narcolepsy is poorly investigated. This review aims to provide a synthesis of behavioral, neurophysiological, and neurochemical evidence to discuss the complex relationship between NC and emotional experience and to direct future research.
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