Autoimmune mechanisms and new opportunities for treatment narcolepsy

Abstract

Narcolepsy is a disease related to hypersomnia type-sleep disorders and characterized by the following manifestations: excessive daytime sleepiness, cataplexy, hypnagogic hallucinations, sleep paralysis and disturbed night sleep. There are several models of the disease pathogenesis each of them assumes the autoimmune nature of the disease. In this regard, it is necessary to develop etiological approaches to the treatment of the disease.