Isolated Cataplexy of more than 40 Years' Duration | The British Journal of Psychiatry | Cambridge Core (original) (raw)

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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Brief Reports

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Copyright © 1991 The Royal College of Psychiatrists

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