$1.5 Million Grant to Yale for Narcolepsy-Neurotransmitter Study.

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M2 PRESSWIRE-13 March 2007-YALE UNIVERSITY: $1.5 Million Grant to Yale for Narcolepsy-Neurotransmitter Study(C)1994-2007 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:13032007 New Haven, Conn. -- Yale School of Medicine researchers have received a $1.5 million grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to study neurons that play a major role in narcolepsy.

Narcolepsy is a neurodegenerative disease characterized by daytime sleepiness. The NIH grant will further Yale research into narcolepsy and other disorders linked to neurons that produce the peptide hypocretin. "The activity of these hypocretin cells is important for enhancing cognitive arousal and resisting sleep, and they may also play a role in anxiety and body weight regulation," said the principal...