Cataplexy Stocks List
Symbol | Grade | Name | % Change | |
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AVDL | C | Avadel Pharmaceuticals plc | -2.71 | |
JAZZ | D | Jazz Pharmaceuticals plc | 0.38 | |
NLSP | F | NLS Pharmaceutics Ltd. | -0.83 |
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Symbol | Grade | Name | Weight | |
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XPH | B | SPDR S&P Pharmaceuticals ETF | 3.46 | |
PJP | C | PowerShares Dynamic Pharmaceuticals | 3.25 | |
FTXH | C | First Trust Nasdaq Pharmaceuticals ETF | 2.99 | |
IHE | D | iShares U.S. Pharmaceutical ETF | 2.63 | |
TOKE | C | Cambria Cannabis ETF | 2.62 |
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- Cataplexy
Cataplexy is a sudden and transient episode of muscle weakness accompanied by full conscious awareness, typically triggered by emotions such as laughing, crying, or terror. Cataplexy affects approximately 70% of people who have narcolepsy, and is caused by an autoimmune destruction of hypothalamic neurons that produce the neuropeptide hypocretin (also called orexin), which regulates arousal and has a role in stabilization of the transition between wake and sleep states. Cataplexy without narcolepsy is rare and the cause is unknown.
The term cataplexy originates from the Greek κατά (kata, meaning "down"), and πλῆξις (plēxis, meaning "strike") and it was first used around 1880 in German physiology literature to describe the phenomenon of tonic immobility also known as "playing possum". This animal is able to feign death when it is threatened. In the same year the French neuropsychiatrist Jean-Baptiste Gélineau coined the term 'narcolepsy' and published some clinical reports that contain details about two patients who have similar condition as the narcoleptic cases nowadays. Nevertheless the onset reported by him was in adulthood as compared to the nowadays cases reported in childhood and adolescence. Even if he preferred the term ‘astasia’ instead of ‘cataplexy’ the case described by him remained iconic for the full narcoleptic syndrome.
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