Narcolepsy

Narcolepsy

1. In Individuals with long-standing disease, brief(seconds to minutes) episodes of sudden bilateral loss of muscle tone with maintained consciousness that are precipitated by laughter of joking

Recurrent Periods of an irrepressible need to sleep, lapsing into sleep, or napping occurring within the same day.

2. IN children or in individuals within 6 months of onset, spontaneous grimaces or jaw-opening episodes with tongue thrusting or a global hypotonic, without any obvious emotional triggers.

3. Nocturnal sleep polysomnography showing rapid eye movement (REMP) sleep latency less than or equal to 15 minutes, or a multiple sleep latency test showing a mean sleep latency less than or equal to 8 minutes and two or more sleep-onset REM Periods.

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