The protean manifestations of childhood narcolepsy and their misinterpretation

Developmental Medicine and Child Neurology

Volumn 48, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 307-310

  Stores, Gregory ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b NONE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIDEPRESSANT AGENT; CENTRAL STIMULANT AGENT; PSYCHOTROPIC AGENT;

ATTENTION DEFICIT DISORDER; BEHAVIOR DISORDER; CATAPLEXY; CHILD; CHILDHOOD DISEASE; CLINICAL FEATURE; DAYTIME SOMNOLENCE; DIAGNOSTIC ERROR; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; HUMAN; HYPNAGOGIC HALLUCINATION; MEMORY DISORDER; NARCOLEPSY; PARASOMNIA; PATIENT EDUCATION; PATIENT REFERRAL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY OF LIFE; REVIEW; SOCIAL INTERACTION; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; SOMNOLENCE; VISUAL DISORDER;

CHILD; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; DISORDERS OF EXCESSIVE SOMNOLENCE; HUMANS; MOOD DISORDERS; NARCOLEPSY; SLEEP PARALYSIS;

EID: 33645033393     PISSN: 00121622     EISSN: 14698749     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0012162206000661     Document Type: Review

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