A Retrospective Survey of Childhood ADHD Symptomatology Among Adult Narcoleptics.
Joint prevalence calculations of childhood ADHD symptomatology in the Narcolepsy Group were more than 8 to 15 times greater than expected. Among NG, those individuals with a greater score on the WURS, indicative of childhood ADHD symptomatology, also had shorter sleep onsets on the Multiple Sleep Latency Test, a common objective measure of sleepiness. Conclusion: It appears that self-reported childhood ADHD symptomatology history among adult narcoleptics is common.It's self reported, subjective data, but when the full article does come out, let's see if they make the next correlation:
Test those people for strep antibodies.
And for the supergeeks-
An orexinergic projection from perifornical hypothalamus to raphe pallidus increases rat brown adipose tissue thermogenesis.
Apparently orexin directly stimulates brown fat production. Free full text available.
