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Isolated cataplexy of more than 40 years' duration
J G van Dijk1, G J Lammers, B A Blansjaar
1Department of Neurology/Clinical Neurophysiology, Leiden University Hospital, The Netherlands.
The British Journal of Psychiatry : the Journal of Mental Science
|November 1, 1991
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.