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NARCOLEPSY at Skyaid  updated 10/12/02

Nice review article of Narcolepsy in Scientific American  Jan 2000
 Rate: 1 in 1000 in US, 1 in 600 in Japan, 1 in 500,000 in Israel
http://www.sciam.com/2000/0100issue/0100siegel.html

Above author is a doctor who previously wrote the following

Siegel, J. M., Fahringer, H., Tomaszewski, K. S., Kaitan, K., Kilduff, T. and  Dement, W. C. Heart rate and blood pressure changes associated with cataplexy in canine narcolepsy.  Sleep, 9:216-221, 1986.

Siegel, J.M., Tomaszewski, K.S., Fahringer, H. Cave, G., Kilduff, T. and Dement, W.C. Heart rate and blood pressure changes during sleep-waking cycles and cataplexy in narcoleptic dogs.  Am. J. Physiol., 256:111-119, 1989.

Author has the following web page http://www.npi.ucla.edu/sleepresearch/

Power spectrum analysis of heart rate variability during sleep in narcolepsy
http://www.websciences.org/cgi-shl/dbml.exe?Action=Query&Template=/APSS/indiv.dbm&ID=19960254

Cardiopulmonary Sleep and Ventilatory Disorders Laboratory
 http://cpmcnet.columbia.edu/dept/pulmonary/ventdislab.html