[Narcolepsy and the psychiatric tableau. A specific form of narcolepsy?].
Narcolepsy is a well-known hypersomnia. Nevertheless narcolepsy in which the hallucinatory component is unusually prominent may lead to a false diagnosis of schizophrenia syndrome. This aspect is illustrated by the case of Miss B. who appears like a psychotic patient without dissociation syndrome and with a hysterical personality. Are the narcoleptics with psychiatric disorders a peculiar sub-type of narcolepsy? Fourty-five percent of our eleven narcoleptics patients have an associated psychiatric disorder. Most of them are depressive. Surprisingly fourty percent of our patients are non-DR2 at the Human Leucocyte Antigen typing. Furthermore seventy five percent of them have an associated psychiatric disorder. This would mean a peculiar sub-type of narcolepsy.
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Service de Psychiatrie, Hôpital Laënnec, Paris.
D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D002385:Cataplexy / Q000145:classification / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000523:psychology; D002648:Child; D015897:Comorbidity; D003866:Depressive Disorder / Q000145:classification / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000523:psychology; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D001523:Mental Disorders / Q000145:classification / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000523:psychology; D009290:Narcolepsy / Q000145:classification / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000523:psychology; D012559:Schizophrenia / Q000145:classification / Q000175:diagnosis; D012565:Schizophrenic Psychology
Narcolepsie et tableau psychiatrique. Une forme de narcolepsie particulière?