Sleep attacks in Parkinson's disease
โ Scribed by Walter Pirker; Svenja Happe
- Book ID
- 117293492
- Publisher
- The Lancet
- Year
- 2000
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 63 KB
- Volume
- 356
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0140-6736
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## Abstract We describe a sleep attack, which was induced by taking excessive levodopa and pergolide, in a 73โyearโold woman with Parkinson's disease. At the onset of the sleep attack, her head suddenly sagged and sometimes hit the table, but she did not notice these symptoms. Her family noticed th
Sleep attacks are a common yet only recently recognized phenomenon in patients with Parkinson's disease (PD). Initially reported to occur only with particular dopamine agonists, sleep attacks have been observed with all dopaminergic drugs. [1][2][3] In the majority of affected patients, sleep attack