Human hypocretin-deficient narcolepsy - aberrant food choice due to impaired taste?
Authors demonstrate that patients with narcolepsy type 1 (N1) have more tendency of eat salty snacks after satiety than health volunteers. A few mechanisms to explain the weight gain have been discussed in narcolepsy. The hypocretin-1 deficiency can influence the olfactory...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Series: | Sleep Science |
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Online Access: | http://www.sleepscience.org.br/export-pdf/411/v10n2a05.pdf |