Dr Sutapa Mukherjee

that's also where much of our emotional processing occurs.

So it makes sense that that part of the brain is really the powerhouse of the brain.

Yeah, we feel floppy.

Yeah.

Yeah, yeah.

And I think we've all experienced that.

But these people with narcolepsy, I mean, obviously, if you get cataplexy as part of your narcolepsy, and not everybody does, that's also a fairly rare phenomenon.

But if you do have cataplexy, then you do have to be really careful.

And

you know, you've got to let people know that you could fall down.

And obviously we don't want people to injure themselves.

So there are medications that can help to moderate the cataplexy and stop that from happening.

Because obviously if you were driving, for example, and you laughed

while you were driving, that could be really dangerous.

So there's a lot of different things that we can do to help to control the cataplexy.

And one of them is really just making sure that the people around you are aware and will look out for you in case you do have one of these episodes.

There are good treatments that we have now to help to moderate the impact of a cataplexy.

And that's what we would definitely, if someone's having these episodes every few days or every week, we would definitely ask them to take medication to help them control it.

It definitely is.

And it's different for everybody because we have so many things in our lives that can impact our sleep.