Narcolepsy A sleep disorder with some psychiatric features
Dr. Douglass is a psychiatrist and also a fullyqualified specialist in sleep disorders medicine. During over 30 years of practice, he has assembled a series of patient histories showing that some patients with narcolepsy have psychiatric symptoms. Narcolepsy is a treatable but rare neurological disorder of the brains sleepwake control system. The illness usually starts suddenly in boys and girls between the ages of 13 18 and can be mistaken for depression, attention deficit disorder, or even schizophrenia in its early stages. Fortunately, accurate laboratory diagnosis and effective medication treatment are available.
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