Narcolepsy

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Symptoms


Narcolepsy is technically defined by excessive daytime sleepiness and sleep attacks, in conjunction with one or more auxiliary symptoms, which can include cataplexy, hallucination, and sleep paralysis. The entire tetrad of symptoms, as it is often called, occurs only in about 10 percent of cases. Cataplexy is the most common auxiliary symptom of narcolepsy, afflicting roughly 70 percent of patients. Sleep paralysis and hypnogogic and hypnopompic hallucinations are less common. ...Read the full article