The clinical features of cataplexy: A questionnaire study in narcolepsy patients with and without hypocretin-1 deficiency

Sleep Medicine

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 12-18

  Overeem, Sebastiaan ^a,b   van Nues, Sofie J ^c   van der Zande, Wendy L ^c   Donjacour, Claire E ^c   van Mierlo, Petra ^b   Lammers, Gert Jan ^c  

^a RADBOUD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b EPILEPSY CENTER KEMPENHAEGHE   (Netherlands)

^c LEIDEN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Atonia; Cataplexy; Hypocretin; Narcolepsy; Orexin; Phenotype

Indexed keywords

ANTIDEPRESSANT AGENT; OREXIN A; OXYBATE SODIUM;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CATAPLEXY; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMOTION; FACE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMOR; JAW; KNEE; LEG; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MUSCLE WEAKNESS; NARCOLEPSY; NONVERBAL COMMUNICATION; PHENOTYPIC VARIATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUESTIONNAIRE; RISK FACTOR;

ACTIVITIES OF DAILY LIVING; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ANGER; CATAPLEXY; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTRACELLULAR SIGNALING PEPTIDES AND PROTEINS; LAUGHTER; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NARCOLEPSY; NEUROPEPTIDES; PHENOTYPE; QUESTIONNAIRES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 78650287406     PISSN: 13899457     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.sleep.2010.05.010     Document Type: Article

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