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Excessive daytime sleepiness and 'sleep attacks' induced by entacapone
Martin Bares1, Petr Kanovský, Ivan Rektor
11st Department of Neurology and Movement Disorders Centre, St Anne Hospital, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic. martin.bares@fnusa.cz
Fundamental & Clinical Pharmacology
|February 18, 2003
Abstract:
Three patients with advanced Parkinson's disease, all of whom developed excessive daytime sleepiness and 'sleep attacks' after the administration of entacapone, are described. This is another demonstration that inappropriate daytime sleep episodes are not exclusive to dopamine agonists.