Interaction between narcolepsy—cataplexy and bipolar mood disorder in an elderly woman
✍ Scribed by Philip Meats; Jonathan Hellewell; David Jolley
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 1992
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 229 KB
- Volume
- 7
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0885-6230
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✦ Synopsis
An elderly woman who presented with a manic depressive psychosis and the narcolepsy-cataplexy syndrome is described. Cataplexy occurred only during hypomania. Other narcoleptic symptoms were more evident during depression. We are not aware of previous reports of an interaction between these two conditions, which is of considerable interest.
KEY woms-Cataplexy, narcolepsy, mania, depression.
Cataplexy is part of the fascinating syndrome first described by Gelineau (1880). The other features are attacks of irresistible sleep, sleep paralysis, and hypnagogic hallucinations. Psychiatric disorders