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And how to kind of try to describe it to them.

I found over time it's really difficult for people to understand it.

It's just very complicated with this tiredness, the cataplexy, the fragmented sleep at night.

If you're a normal person, you've got sleep and you've got your waking life.

And occasionally they'll overlap a little bit.

For me, I live in this world that is very rarely am I fully awake and very rarely am I fully asleep.

I live in the in-between.

I'm Tom Scanlon.

I'm a professor of neurology at Harvard Medical School.

Narcolepsy is a neurologic disorder.

It is one of the most common sleep disorders.

It affects about one in two thousand people.

It doesn't matter how much sleep they get at night, they're going to feel sleepy every day.

People also can have a variety of other symptoms.

These include hypnagogic hallucinations, where they can have very vivid dreamlike hallucinations just as they're drifting off to sleep

or just when they awaken.

They can have something called sleep paralysis, where as they're falling asleep or sometimes when they wake up, they can't move.

And then there's cataplexy, which is similar to sleep paralysis.

The distinction is that cataplexy occurs right in the middle of the day, and it's triggered by strong emotions.

And then the last thing, which is perhaps sort of one of the strangest of all,

is that, considering that somebody with narcolepsy is often very sleepy through the day, they often have fragmented sleep at night.

They can wake up four or five times for 10 or 20 minutes for no clear reason.

And so in the same way that they have trouble maintaining wakefulness through the day, they they can have trouble maintaining sleep through the night.

Somewhere between age 10 and age 20 or so is when narcolepsy begins.

People usually start off with sleepiness and then the other symptoms follow.

So there's a number of different systems in the brain that are involved in promoting arousal or wakefulness and sleep.

Up here is the cortex.

This is the front near the forehead.

Here's the back.

This is the brainstem coming down here.

And this is the cerebellum, which is involved in balance.

The brainstem is the site that most of these arousal promoting signals come from.

And those cells send connections up throughout the whole front part of the brain,

and they help turn on the cortex and other parts of the brain when you're awake.

There's also some cells in a small region called the hypothalamus

that are involved in promoting sleep

and these sleep promoting cells one of the things they do is they actually turn off the wake promoting cells

and so that allows you to be fully asleep without any hint of consciousness.

This is called the mammillary body and just above it right here is where the hypocretin neurons sit.

And this is a really critical collection of neurons,

brain cells, that makes very particular and special neurotransmitters known as hypocretin or orexin.

Those are just two names for the same thing.

The hypocretin producing cells help activate and sustain activity in the other weight promoting brain regions across the day.

The brain contains billions of neurons and And only a very, very small number of these produce hypocretin.

It's probably somewhere between 100,000 and 200,000, which sounds like a large number, but when you compare it to 10 billion neurons, it's really very small.

In narcolepsy, those hypocretin-producing cells die off.

When you look closely at the brain of somebody who has narcolepsy, what you see is about a 90 to 95% loss of the hypocretin-producing neurons.

So there's two broad themes that are being pursued in narcolepsy research right now.

One theme is to understand what goes wrong in the brain when the hypocretin-producing cells die off.

How does that lead to sleepiness and cataplexing and other symptoms?

Another big theme is trying to understand what actually kills the hypocretin neurons in the first place.

Because if we could understand that, then it's possible that if one could diagnose and recognize narcolepsy right at the earliest stages,

we might be able to get in and stop that process.

As we've discovered more and more about what's actually causing the hypocretin neurons to die off,

and as we've discovered more about the consequences of that for the brain,

it's really given us a lot of hope for new opportunities for coming up with better therapies for people with narcolepsy.

If we could get hypocretin back in the brain somehow, that would be potentially as great is giving insulin to people with diabetes.

It would really be the missing factor coming back into play.

And it could, in theory, cure their sleepiness and cure their cataplexy in the most thorough fashion.

Right now, scientists are working with a variety of techniques to try to get hypocretin signaling back into the brain.

But the hope is that in 5, 10, or 15 years, we may see those hypocretin replacement therapies coming into clinical practice.

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Questa lezione di conversazione si basa sul video “What is Narcolepsy?”. Le parole che ritornano più spesso: hypocretin, sleep, brain, narcolepsy, cells. Questo video contiene 61 frasi e 843 parole da ripetere con lo shadowing. Il parlato dura 4:59. Chi parla ha un ritmo naturale di circa 169 parole al minuto, vicino a una conversazione quotidiana. Il 83% delle parole rientra nelle 3.000 più comuni dell’inglese; conviene studiare le altre prima di iniziare.

Vocaboli chiave di questo video

15 parole del video che vale la pena imparare, con pronuncia e significato:

Parola	Pronuncia	Significato
asleep aggettivo	/əˈsliːp/	addormentato
symptom sostantivo	/ˈsɪm(p)təm/	sintomo
rarely avverbio	/ˈɹɛəɹli/	raramente
discover verbo	/dɪˈskʌvə/	scoprire, trovare
cure verbo	/kjɔː/	curare
disorder sostantivo	/dɪsˈɔɹdɚ/	disordine
awake verbo	/əˈweɪk/	svegliarsi
sleepy aggettivo	/ˈsliːpi/	assonnato, sonnolento
fragment sostantivo	/ˈfɹæɡmənt/	frammento
complicated aggettivo	/ˈkɑm.plɪˌkeɪ.tɪd/	complicato, intricato
occur verbo	/əˈkɜː/	verificarsi
technique sostantivo	/tɛkˈniːk/	tecnica
compare verbo	/kəmˈpɛɚ/	paragonare
replacement sostantivo	/ɹɪˈpleɪsmənt/	sostituto, rimpiazzo
occasionally avverbio	/əˈkeɪʒənəli/	occasionalmente, saltuariamente

I phrasal verb che sentirai

Parola	Pronuncia	Significato
wake up verbo	/ˌweɪk ˈʌp/	svegliarsi
come up with verbo		ideare, escogitare
turn off verbo		spegnere

La grammatica di questo video

Le strutture che chi parla usa di più, con le parole esatte del video:

Struttura	Nel video
Forma passiva be + participio passato — conta ciò che accade, non chi lo fa	are involved · is involved · is called
Frasi relative who / which + frase — un’informazione in più su una persona o una cosa	cataplexy, which is · thing, which is · cerebellum, which is
Present perfect have/has + participio passato — un’azione passata che conta ancora adesso	have fragmented · we've discovered

Pronuncia a cui fare attenzione

Chi parla usa 14 contrazioni e forme ridotte, come they're, I'm, we've. Pronunciale nella forma breve, così come le senti.

I suoni “sh” e “zh”: occasionally /əˈkeɪʒənəli/, potentially /pəˈtɛnʃ(ə)li/, emotion /ɪˈməʊ.ʃən/, consciousness /ˈkɑnʃəsnəs/, distinction /dɪˈstɪŋkʃən/
Parole lunghe — attenzione all’accento: complicated /ˈkɑm.plɪˌkeɪ.tɪd/, occasionally /əˈkeɪʒənəli/, potentially /pəˈtɛnʃ(ə)li/, neurological /nɝəˈlɑd͡ʒɪkəl/, hypocretin /ˌhaɪ.poʊˈkɹiː.tən/

I suoni difficili per chi parla italiano:

/h/ — va soffiata, non è muta: hint /hɪnt/, forehead /ˈfɔɹ.hɛd/, hypocretin /ˌhaɪ.poʊˈkɹiː.tən/, hallucination /həˌluːsɪˈneɪʃən/, hypnagogic /ˌhɪpnəˈɡɑd͡ʒɪk/
Consonante finale — senza aggiungere una vocale dopo: asleep /əˈsliːp/, awake /əˈweɪk/, cortex /ˈkɔɹtɛks/, fragment /ˈfɹæɡmənt/, complicated /ˈkɑm.plɪˌkeɪ.tɪd/
/æ/ — più aperta della “e”: fragment /ˈfɹæɡmənt/, activate /ˈæktɪˌveɪt/, overlap /ˌəʊvəˈlæp/, cataplexy /ˈkætəˌplɛksi/, paralysis /pəˈɹæləsəs/

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