THE ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPH AS AN AID IN THE STUDY OF NARCOLEPSY

摘要: A heterogenous group of disorders characterized by unusual drowsiness or attacks irresistible sleep, occurring during the day, are frequently classified under narcolepsies. certain number such narcoleptic patients have, in addition, muscular weakness and loss muscle tone, a condition referred to as cataplexy 1 ; these usually follow emotional experiences, hearty laughter, anger surprise. That there is relation between narcolepsy generally conceded, although mechanism not understood. There various theoretic explanations for phenomena but none completely satisfactory. Both appear be symptoms rather than disease entities. Most clinicians familiar with episodes somnolence association encephalitis, tumor brain, syphilis, endocrinology, blood dyscrasias, epilepsy, chronic systemic psychoneuroses. It purpose this paper discuss detail symptomatology