Isolated cataplexy of more than 40 years' duration.

van Dijk, J G; Lammers, G J; Blansjaar, B A · Br J Psychiatry · 1991

case_report · Level V

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Abstract

For over 40 years, a 55-year-old woman had suffered from cataplexy, which had been mistakenly identified as hysteria. Sleepiness, hypnagogic hallucinations and sleep-onset paralysis were not present. This is the longest duration of isolated cataplexy reported so far.

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