Kleine-Levin syndrome and psychosis: Observation from an unusual case

Neuropsychiatry, Neuropsychology and Behavioral Neurology

Volumn 13, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 140-142

  Lu, Mong Liang ^a,b   Liu, Hsing Cheng ^a   Chen, Chin Hung ^a,c   Sung, Shing Ming ^a  

^a Taipei City Psychiatry Center   (Taiwan)

^b SHIN KONG WU HO SU MEMORIAL HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

^c Taiwan Prov Tsao Tung Mental Hosp   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AFFECTIVE NEUROSIS; ARTICLE; BASAL GANGLION; CASE REPORT; HUMAN; HYPERSOMNIA; HYPOTHALAMUS; MALE; MANIA; NEURORADIOLOGY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PINEAL BODY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOSIS; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY;

ADULT; BASAL GANGLIA; BRAIN DISEASES; COMORBIDITY; CYSTS; DISORDERS OF EXCESSIVE SOMNOLENCE; FRONTAL LOBE; HUMANS; HYPOTHALAMUS; KLEINE-LEVIN SYNDROME; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; PINEAL GLAND; PSYCHOTIC DISORDERS; REGIONAL BLOOD FLOW; TEMPORAL LOBE; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON;

EID: 0033999123     PISSN: 0894878X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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