Alexis Fernandez-Preiksa

It's not going to be the same one.

Like most things that happen in the brain, it's not like textbook standard across the board.

There's going to be variations between patients.

And then there's also going to be people that have underlying conditions or disorders and people that don't, well, that don't have obvious ones.

So it seems to just be happening on its own.

So...

To diagnose and treat it, it involves kind of addressing the underlying causes and trying to manage the symptoms.

So in some cases, medications that affect neurotransmitter systems are used, such as things that will target the GABA pathway, so something that's going to enhance the production of GABA.

That might be prescribed to help control these symptoms, and that way you're promoting this muscle atonia, so you're actually relaxing your muscles when you're sleeping.

However...

That's determined on a case-by-case basis.

And treating the symptoms isn't saying that it's curing the disorder.

You're just treating the symptoms.

You're still not getting to this underlying cause.

So it's still important to be working with specialists to figure out, is there an underlying cause for this?

What is it?

What is this hinting to?

What is it leading to?

And every single person is different.

Every case is different.