Atypical Kleine-Levin syndrome: Can insomnia and anorexia be features too?

Sleep Medicine

Volumn 9, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 172-176

  Shukla, Garima ^a   Bhatia, Manvir ^a   Singh, Sumit ^a   Goyal, Vinay ^a   Srivastava, Trilochan ^a   Behari, Madhuri ^a  

^a ALL INDIA INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (India)

Author keywords

Anorexia; Atypical; Insomnia; Kleine Levin syndrome

Indexed keywords

CARBAMAZEPINE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANOREXIA; APPETITE DISORDER; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR DISORDER; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMORBIDITY; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; DISEASE DURATION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYPERPHAGIA; HYPERSOMNIA; INSOMNIA; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; POLYSOMNOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REM SLEEP; SCHOOL CHILD; SLEEP DISORDER; TREATMENT RESPONSE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANOREXIA NERVOSA; BRAIN; CHILD; DISORDERS OF EXCESSIVE SOMNOLENCE; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; KLEINE-LEVIN SYNDROME; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POLYSOMNOGRAPHY; PREVALENCE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SLEEP INITIATION AND MAINTENANCE DISORDERS; SLEEP, REM; TIME FACTORS; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON;

EID: 38149066691     PISSN: 13899457     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.sleep.2007.03.016     Document Type: Article

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