Topic

Narcolepsy

A neurological sleep disorder marked by excessive daytime sleepiness and, in some forms, cataplexy (sudden episodes of muscle weakness). Many cases involve loss of orexin signalling.

Current clusters

science2 publishers

Orexin's discoverers win the Lasker basic-science award a month after the first agonist approval

Emmanuel Mignot and Masashi Yanagisawa reached the same wakefulness peptide from opposite directions. The drug class that followed now holds one narcolepsy approval and a much larger set of untested hopes.

Publishers:livescience.comstatnews.com

Reality

Evidence78
Adoption52
Hype gap+12
Incentives40
Confidence74