Genes, infection and autoimmune reaction behind narcolepsy
One of the world’s most prominent sleep and narcolepsy researchers is coming to Sweden to lecture at Karolinska Institutet. Professor Emmanuel Mignot is credited with the discovery that narcolepsy in dogs is attributable to a mutation in a sleep-regulating gene.Karolinska Institutet invites you to a lecture titled “Gene-infection interplay in narcolepsy: an autoimmune disorder affecting hypocretin/orexin neurons”.Lecturer: Emmanuel Mignot, professor of psychiatry and behavioural science at Stanford University of Medicine and director of the Stanford Center for Sleep Sciences.When: 24