[Narcolepsy in childhood and adolescence: symptoms, diagnosis, and therapy. A case report].

doi:10.1024/1422-4917/a000461

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[Narcolepsy in childhood and adolescence: symptoms, diagnosis, and therapy. A case report].

Zeitschrift fur Kinder- und Jugendpsychiatrie und Psychotherapie - 1 Mar 2017

Gehrmann Jochen, Siegler Dominik, Ignacy Evelin, Reimer Inga

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Narcolepsy is a rare, multifactorial disease of the hypothalamus characterized by its leading symptoms of excessive daytime sleepiness and cataplexy. Sleep-EEG and a HLA-DR-genotype serve to secure the diagnosis. We report here on a 14-year-old girl suffering from anxieties, depression, school refusal, social withdrawal as well as very frequent attacks of sleep during the day and cataplexy. Currently, there is no...

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