reading log of a chapter in a book

SUMMARY
In chapter 9 of the book, “Narcolepsy and Hypersomnia”, 1980, the author, Bedrich Roth, mainly introduces the narcoleptic signs and effects at the aspects of “falling asleep”, “nocturnal sleep” and “morning awakening”. In section a, the author reports that, narcoleptics are frequently easier than ordinary to fall asleep, which has evidences supported by the literatures of Roth, Ruther and others. And he also mentions that, there are also some narcoleptics almost normally get sleep or have difficulties to fall asleep. Then, besides providing a table about the proportions of the above three types of falling asleep in narcolepsy and describing the table specifically, he also lists the percentages of narcoleptics with monosymptomatic and polysymptomatic types of falling asleep in clinic. In part b, according to the reports of Daniels, Heyck, Hess, Jovanovic, Ruther and others, B. Roth primarily indicates that, there are a large amount of narcoleptics have troubles in sleeping at night. He also quotes the speech of Vein to express that, after narcoleptics experience the attacks of narcolepsy and cataplexy, there is the time when the troubles of sleep occur in a high rate during the sleeps in the evening. In addition, the author claims that, narcoleptics can’t get steady sleeps though they are faster to fall asleep. Moreover, Roth shows and describes a form about narcoleptic patients’ evaluations of their sleep at night. He also presents the proportions of the monosymptomatic and polysymptomatic form of “nocturnal sleep”. In passage c, Roth explicitly shows and explains a table about how many narcoleptics can get up as normal and how many patients awaken with sleep drukenness. Furthermore, he also mentions that, patients with idiopathic hypersomnia will exhibit more severe sleep drukenness than narcoleptics. In portion d, the author claims that, narcoleptics always have headache, mainly caused by constantly waking up in the process of sleeping, will recover after high-quality sleeps. In addition, there are some evidences provided by Daniels and Roth to show that, how many narcoleptics get headache. In the section e, Roth indicates that, a large number of narcoleptics are obesity based on the reports of Daniels, Thiele, Bernhardt, Wilder, Cave, Vein and others. He also explains that, even though narcolepsy doesn’t directly attach to highly excessive heaviness, longer time of sleep still leads patients to gain weight. In part f, the author according to the supports of Redlich, Daniels and others as well as the conclusion of Yoss and Daly to show that, over functions of the thyroid and “low basal metabolism” induced by sleepiness might take part in when patients accept examines, which often misleads the explanations of narcoleptic indications. Furthermore, Roth notes that narcolepsy also has a considerable effect on” sexual functions”. For male, narcolepsy can inclines their libido and impotence; for female, narcolepsy has large influences on the aspects of menstruates and libido. Then he gives a form to summarize the numbers of patients with the disturbances of “sexual functions”. Moreover, Roth indicates that, narcolepsy also leads to “other endocrine disorders”, such as reducing the functions of pituitary reported by Daniels and others, varying the metabolism of brain monoamines noted by Mouret, Gillin and others, over secreting diabetogenic insulin as well as decreasing glucose tolerance provided by Robert, declining some remaining substance like adrenaline in the blood, lessening excretion of urinary adrenaline and bringing down the level of serum corticosteroid presented by Vein. In part g, base on Vein’s literature, B. Roth mainly claims the negative impacts of autonomic nervous system caused by narcolepsy. In the last section, Roth presents that, although narcolepsy doesn’t vary narcoleptics’ psychology in the field of normal mind and intelligence, there is certain relation still built up between some “typical mental disturbances” and narcolepsy, in particular, schizophrenia supported by Sours. Furthermore, the author indicates that, there are a number of the reports from the literatures of Redlich, Cave, Daniels, Heyck, Hess and Klempel to evidence the closely connection between narcolepsy and depression. Then he expresses that, narcoleptics are easier feel depress than normal people through the study of depression and narcolepsy, the one which he works with Nevsimalova. In addition, he quotes the words of Broughton and Ghanem to report that, narcolepsy will give rise to huge emotion waves of patients. Furthermore, Roth mentions that, depression is compacter with hypersomnia than narcolepsy. Moreover, besides explaining “neurotic and neurasthenic symptoms”, “abnormal personality” and psychopathy all that are conjunction with narcolepsy supported by Roy, he also provides a table showing the influence of these above mental indications. Finally, he claims that, since the amount of patients tested in Roth and Nevsimalova’s survey is relatively restricted; as a result, the impacts provided in this form are more intense than the facts.

CRITIQUE
Throughout the chapter, the author mainly presents the features and the influence ranges of several different conditions of narcolepsy. Furthermore, there are a considerable amount of expertise principals and profession words utilized by B. Roth. Moreover, he also provides adequate evidence from the literatures of other authors to support his demonstrations. In my opinion, since there is an increase number of people get various aliments about narcolepsy, People, whoever with narcolepsy or not should not only be cured by hospitalizing, but also ought to taking actions to this issue, setting up a series of ordered sleep hygiene and habits by themselves.

QUESTIONS
1. Do you often have nightmares when you are sleeping at night?
2. Do you always wake up when you are sleeping at night?
3. How often do you feel tired when you wake up?

VOCABULARY
1. Nocturnal---adj. happening at night
Rebecca paid a nocturnal visit to the flat.
2. Paralysis---n. the loss of ability to move all or part of your body or feel things in it
The snake’s poison causes paralysis.
3. Terrify---v. to make someone extremely afraid
Her husband’s violence terrified her.
4. Incidence---n. the number of times something happens, especially crime, disaster etc.
Smokers had the highest incidence of colds.
5. Syndrome---n. an illness which consist of a set of physical or mental problems---often used in the name of illnesses.
People who suffer from irritable bowl syndrome, will have many symptoms existing afterwards.