DR MICHAEL MOSLEY: Like humans, dogs can spontaneously develop narcolepsy and I have seen some extraordinary footage of them running excitedly before suddenly collapsing into deep sleep.
Masashi Yanagisawa of the University of Tsukuba was one of the winners of the prize for his research program that contributed to the creation of sleep-inducing drugs.
Emmanuel Mignot is one of the world's leading experts on narcolepsy, a sleep disorder that he finds both "strange" and "fascinating." The French-born Mignot has dedicated his life to studying the causes of narcolepsy and shedding light on one of the great biological mysteries sleep. His discovery of the…