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Narcolepsy 360

Aug 12, 2021

Tatiana Maria Corbitt is a writer, artist and advocate. Tatiana is also a person with Type 1 Narcolepsy.

In this episode, Tatiana and Claire discuss how the onset of her symptoms occurred after having the flu, while in the first year of college. She was diagnosed in 2017 while studying Applied Biological Studies. Since...


Jul 29, 2021

Thomas Gow is a Client Experience Analyst at TruDataRx. Thomas is also a person with Type 1 Narcolepsy and one of the inspirations to the creation of Wake Up Narcolepsy.

In this episode, Thomas shares his experience of diagnosis at the age of 10 and how it wasn’t until he began to experience cataplexy that something...


Jul 15, 2021

Tove Maren Stakkestad is a Danish American Writer and Blogger. She is currently sharing her experience of being a mom of 4 boys  on her blog Mama In The Now. Tove is also a person with Type 1 Narcolepsy.

In this episode, Tove reflects that she believes both her father and grandfather had narcolepsy and she had a sleepy...


Jul 1, 2021

Desireé Gorbea-Finalet is a person with Type 1 Narcolepsy and a student of Peace and Conflict Studies. 

In this episode, Claire and Desireé discuss how because she was labeled as a “good sleeper” as a young child that it may have contributed to a delayed diagnosis. Growing up in Puerto Rico, her family had a...


Jun 10, 2021

Dr. Grandner is the Director of the Sleep and Health Research Program at the University of Arizona, Director of the Behavioral Sleep Medicine Clinic at the Banner-University Medical Center, and an Associate Professor in the Department of Psychiatry at the UA College of Medicine, with joint appointments in the...