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Nature Medicine  10, 673 - 674 (2004)
doi:10.1038/nm0704-673

Not asleep, not quite awake

J Gregor Sutcliffe & Luis de Lecea

The authors are in the Department of Molecular Biology, The Scripps Research Institute, 10550 N. Torrey Pines Rd., La Jolla, California 92037, USA. gregor@scripps.edu or llecea@scripps.edu

Narcoleptic individuals experience episodes of cataplexy, in which they retain consciousness but have no muscle tone. Consciousness and muscle tone are controlled by distinct brain regions, now delineated by research on narcoleptic dogs.

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