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The Fascinating Road to a New Narcolepsy Treatment

The Fascinating Road to a New Narcolepsy Treatment9 Sept39 min

The winners of the 2026 Albert Lasker Basic Medical Research Award, Emmanuel Mignot, MD, PhD, and Masashi Yanagisawa, MD, PhD, discuss how they identified the neuropeptide orexin and deduced its role in narcolepsy.

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