Article
A clinical picture of child and adolescent narcolepsy.
Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry - 1 Jan 2000
Dahl R E, Holttum J, Trubnick L
Abstract excerpt
Although narcolepsy is rarely diagnosed before adulthood, symptoms often begin much earlier and can easily mimic psychiatric disorders in children and adolescents. Clinical experience from a pediatric sleep center is reviewed in 16 consecutive cases of polysomnographically proven narcolepsy with...
Topics
- Adolescent
- Catalepsy
- Conversion Disorder
- Diagnostic Errors
- Female
- Genotype
- HLA-DQ Antigens
- HLA-DR2 Antigen
- Hallucinations
- Humans
- Male
- Mental Disorders
- Methylphenidate
- Narcolepsy
- Obesity
- Polysomnography
- Protriptyline
- Sleep, REM