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I have been suffering from sleep paralysis once a month since my childhood. Is there a research to stop experiencing this fixed phenomenon?
JoCelfyne Daigle
Toronto researchers just took huge steps in sleep paralyor. Hoping to take medicine for five to ten years.
“Normally, you don’t move when you sleep,” a biologist John Peever explains at Toronto University. When a patient suffering from sleep paralyer is still paralyzed when awakened. It only takes a few seconds, as much as possible, but it is traumatic. “
Sleep paralysis is associated with sleep cycle (quick movements of the eyes) which are often associated with dreams. We also talk about paradoxical sleep.
Mr. Peever, who dedicated his career to this disorder, found that this paralyzed is useful when sleeping, but it affects the harm to wake up and related to special brain cells. Now it works to develop medications that prevent paralysis related to these cells.
Can these drugs prevent paradoxical sleep? “The first animal data will be forced to check not, not us.”
Is this problem often?
It is very difficult to know, because most people will have less than once in this year, maybe it will be less than once, and it will definitely understand or consult him. But from time to time, our people are generally more than once a month.
John Peever, Biologist at the University of Toronto
According to him, sleep paralysis reaches less than 1% of people. However, his psychological influence gave him a strong cultural resonance. Citting Brazilian research in 2016 published in Journal Borders in psychologyWho identified violations in disorders in several cultures.
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Hallway Johann Heartrich breeds (1741-1825)
“In the Western drawing, we often see this disorder in the form of a person with a demon in the bedroom.” Johann Heinrich Fassili, Switzerland, was commemorated in the study of Johann Heinrich Fussi Borders in psychology.
Narcolepsy
The same cells associated with paradoxical sleep paralysis are associated with drugs that are tended to fall asleep during the day. “There is a paralysis of some narcoleptics,” he said.
Narcolepsy has less than 1,000. It is also rare for paralysis related to Narcolepsi. Already there are accidents due to paralysis of narcoleptics? “No, because people with severe drugs are usually driving. The paralyzes only occur with a heavy narolepsy.» »
Strong emotions come to aggravate the narcolepsy. A connection with the feelings and concerns is a connection with an Amygdal, a region of the brain.
Another disorder attached to these cells is the lack of paralysis during the REM. “These will be irregular action during the REM and are people who can injure themselves or hurt your wife,” Mr. Peever said. The majority of these patients will develop Parkinson’s disease, so this cells would be very interesting in these cells. “
The paradoxical dormant behavior happens more often after 60 years and highlights Mr. Peever from 1% to 2% of people aged 80.
Men appear more often, but because of the Toronto biologist can simply make less violent actions in women.
What about Sleepwalking? “It’s a completely different sleep phase, so a priori should not be the same biological problem,” Peever said.
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Source: National Sleep Foundation
