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David Plante, MD, PhD, HF MAB member It can be challenging for doctors to distinguish between idiopathic hypersomnia and depression. It is also possible for one patient to have both conditions. Researchers are looking for better ways to tell the difference between the two so...
Continue ReadingCan IH be diagnosed through a controlled 32-hour bed-rest protocol? And, if so, how many hours does someone need to sleep during those 32 hours to be diagnosed with IH? Finally, how accurate is this type of diagnosis? Sleep researchers in France recently set out...
Continue ReadingDo people with IH have different brains than people without IH? According to a Canadian research study involving our prestigious Medical Advisory Board member, Dr. Thanh Dang-Vu, the answer is “yes.” We are very pleased to present this summary of the journal article discussing the...
Continue ReadingWe’ve summarized a journal article that addresses some anesthesia considerations for patients with idiopathic hypersomnia. If you need to have surgery of any kind, you may want to share this information with your healthcare providers. Summary of: Aflaki S, Hu S, Kamel RA, Chung F, Singh M....
Continue ReadingThis article reviews three central disorders of hypersomnolence (CDH), which include narcolepsy type 1, narcolepsy type 2, and idiopathic hypersomnia. The main symptom patients experience in all three of these disorders is excessive daytime sleepiness (EDS), which cannot be explained by other medical conditions or...
Continue ReadingA Pilot Study of tDCS Looks Promising for the Treatment of Idiopathic Hypersomnia Background Idiopathic hypersomnia (IH) can severely impact affected individuals’ family, employment, education, and leisure activities. And because there are no FDA-approved drugs for the treatment of IH -- and even those drugs that are...
Continue ReadingBackground In 2012, researchers from Emory University published a paper on their finding of a substance that increases the effect of GABA in people with central disorders of hypersomnolence, particularly idiopathic hypersomnia. In that paper, they discussed their findings in seven patients who were treated with...
Continue ReadingBackground According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), more than 2 million people in the United States suffer a traumatic brain injury (TBI) every year. Most people with a TBI will also experience a sleep-wake disturbance (a real or perceived change in night-time sleep with resulting daytime...
Continue ReadingBackground How do our brains control when we go to sleep and when we wake up? Previous studies have tried to answer this question, but, despite years of research, our understanding of this process is incomplete. Therefore, the goal of this study was to identify the...
Continue ReadingBackground The primary feature of the two main central disorders of hypersomnolence—narcolepsy and idiopathic hypersomnia (IH)—is excessive daytime sleepiness, defined in the International Classification of Sleep Disorders, third edition, as “daily episodes of an irrepressible need to sleep or daytime lapses into sleep." Overnight sleep testing (polysomnography) and a...
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