The Woman Who Couldn't Wake Up: Hypersomnia and the Science of Sleepiness Eastman Quinn
The Woman Who Couldn't Wake Up: Hypersomnia and the Science of Sleepiness Eastman Quinn Sleep was taking over Anna's life. She stopped working and began losing weight because she couldn't stay awake…
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The Woman Who Couldn't Wake Up: Hypersomnia and the Science of Sleepiness Eastman Quinn
Sleep was taking over Anna's life. She stopped working and began losing weight because she couldn't stay awake long enough to eat. Despite multiple alarm clocks and powerful stimulants, the young Atlanta lawyer could sleep for thirty or even fifty hours at a stretch.
Quinn Eastman explores the science around sleepiness, recounting how researchers have been searching for more than a century for the substances that tip the brain into slumber. Anna's doctors didn't know how to help her until they tried an oddball drug, connected with a hunch that something produced by her body was putting her to sleep.The Woman Who Couldn't Wake Up tells Anna's story-and the broader story of her diagnosis, idiopathic hypersomnia (IH), a shadowy sibling of narcolepsy that has emerged as a focus of sleep research and patient advocacy. He argues that investigation of IH could unlock
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