The majority of sleep-clinic patients suffer from disorders of excessive sleep --- or hypersomnia.

大多数睡眠诊所患者都患有过度睡眠障碍 --- 或嗜睡症。

But for all these other problems, idiopathic hypersomnia, insomnia, we know it's complicated.

但是对于所有这些其他问题，特发性嗜睡，失眠，我们知道它很复杂。

I was diagnosed with idiopathic  hypersomnia, when I was 19 years old.

我 19 岁时被诊断出患有特发性嗜睡症。

For people with idiopathic hypersomnia, or IH, that's not the case.

对于患有特发性嗜睡症或 IH 的人来说，情况并非如此。

So, I think it will really lead to a complete redefinition of the diagnosis of people who have idiopathic hypersomnia or insomnia.

因此，我认为这将真正导致对特发性嗜睡症或失眠症患者的诊断进行彻底的重新定义。

People with idiopathic hypersomnia often have a lot of difficulty waking up in the mornings.

患有特发性嗜睡症的人通常早上起床很困难。

And there's a little bit of experimental evidence suggesting that idiopathic hypersomnia may have a circadian component to it as well.

还有一些实验证据表明，特发性嗜睡症也可能有昼夜节律因素。

Someone diagnosed with idiopathic hypersomnia sleeps for long periods of time— say, 11 hours within a 24-hour period— but never wakes up feeling refreshed.

被诊断患有特发性嗜睡症的人睡了很​​长时间——比如 24 小时内睡了 11 个小时——但醒来时从未感到精神焕发。

The Harvard med school stated about 50% of people who live with ADHD, depression, anxiety, or bipolar disorder suffer from insomnia or hypersomnia, which means sleeping too much.

哈佛医学院表示，大约50%患有多动症、抑郁症、焦虑症或双相情感障碍的人患有失眠或嗜睡症，嗜睡症即指睡的时间过多。

While most insomniacs somehow manage to drag themselves through the day and function at acceptable, although not optimal levels, --- this is not so for people who suffer from hypersomnia.

虽然大多数失眠症患者设法以某种方式勉强自己度过一天并在可接受的水平上工作，尽管不是最佳水平，但对于患有嗜睡症的人来说并非如此。

A number of years ago, several of my colleagues came up with a hypothesis that potentially idiopathic hypersomnia was being caused by an endogenous substance that was turning on the activity of GABA-A receptors.

多年前，我的几位同事提出了一个假设，即潜在的特发性嗜睡症是由一种内源性物质引起的，这种内源性物质会开启 GABA-A 受体的活性。