Recurrent hypersomnia: A review of 339 cases

Sleep Medicine Reviews

Volumn 15, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 247-257

  Billiard, Michel ^a   Jaussent, Isabelle ^b   Dauvilliers, Yves ^a,b   Besset, Alain ^b  

^a GUI DE CHAULIAC HOSPITAL   (France)

^b INSERM   (France)

Author keywords

Atypical Kleine Levin syndrome; Comorbidity; Kleine Levin syndrome; Kleine Levin syndrome without compulsive eating; Menstrual related hypersomnia; Recurrent hypersomnia

Indexed keywords

CATECHOL METHYLTRANSFERASE; HLA DQB1 ANTIGEN; HLA DR2 ANTIGEN; OREXIN A; TRYPTOPHAN HYDROXYLASE;

AMNESIA; ANXIETY; BEHAVIOR DISORDER; BRAIN REGION; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; COGNITION; COMORBIDITY; CONFUSION; DELAYED DIAGNOSIS; DELUSION; DEPRESSION; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; DISEASE DURATION; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; DISEASE SEVERITY; DYSAUTONOMIA; FAMILIAL DISEASE; GENE FREQUENCY; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION; HALLUCINATION; HUMAN; HYPERSOMNIA; INSOMNIA; KLEINE LEVIN SYNDROME WITHOUT COMPULSIVE EATING; MENSTRUAL RELATED HYPERSOMNIA; MOOD DISORDER; NARCOLEPSY; NEUROIMAGING; NEUROPATHOLOGY; ONSET AGE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHAGOMANIA; PREVALENCE; RECURRENT DISEASE; RECURRENT HYPERSOMNIA; RECURRENT HYPERSOMNIA WITH COMORBIDITY; REVIEW; SEX RATIO; SEXUAL DISINHIBITION; WEIGHT GAIN;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE OF ONSET; CHILD; DISORDERS OF EXCESSIVE SOMNOLENCE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; TIME FACTORS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 79958232385     PISSN: 10870792     EISSN: 15322955     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.smrv.2010.08.001     Document Type: Review

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