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Query: UMLS:C0038454 (
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Idiopathic narcolepsy
usually results from a loss of the hypothalamic neuropeptide orexin (hypocretin), but the cause of secondary narcolepsy resulting from focal brain lesions is unknown. The authors describe a young man who developed narcolepsy after a large hypothalamic
stroke
. His lesion included much of the hypothalamic region in which orexin is produced, and his CSF concentration of orexin was low. The authors hypothesize that a loss of orexin neurons or their relevant targets may be the specific neuropathology causing this and many other cases of secondary narcolepsy.
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PMID:Narcolepsy and low CSF orexin (hypocretin) concentration after a diencephalic stroke. 1142 23
