Sleep Medicine and Psychophysiology (수면정신생리)
- Volume 3 Issue 1
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- Pages.47-55
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- 1996
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- 1225-7354(pISSN)
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- 2713-8631(eISSN)
Nocturnal Sleep Fragmentation in Narcoleptics and Its Clinical Implications
기면병(嗜眠炳)의 야간(夜間) 수면분절(睡眠分節) 및 임상적(臨床的) 의미(意味)
- Park, Doo-Heum (Department of Psychiatry, Seoul National University College of Medicine, and Division of Sleep Studies, Seoul National University Hospital) ;
- Sohn, Chang-Ho (Department of Psychiatry, Seoul National University College of Medicine, and Division of Sleep Studies, Seoul National University Hospital) ;
- Jeong, Do-Un (Department of Psychiatry, Seoul National University College of Medicine, and Division of Sleep Studies, Seoul National University Hospital)
- 박두흠 (서울대학교 의과대학 정신과학교실 및 서울대학교병원 수면다원검사실) ;
- 손창호 (서울대학교 의과대학 정신과학교실 및 서울대학교병원 수면다원검사실) ;
- 정도언 (서울대학교 의과대학 정신과학교실 및 서울대학교병원 수면다원검사실)
- Published : 1996.06.30
Abstract
Narcolepsy is characterized by sleep attack with excessive daytime sleepiness(EDS), cataplexy, sleep paralysis, and hypnagogic hallucination. Paradoxically, narcoleptics tend to complain of frequent arousals and shallow sleep during the night time despite their excessive sleepiness. However, nocturnal sleep fragmentation in narcoleptics is relatively ignored in treatment strategies, compared with sleep attack/EDS and cataplexy. In our paper, we attempted to investigate further on the poor nocturnal sleep in narcoleptics and to discuss possible treatment interventions. Out of consecutively seen patients at Seoul National University Sleep Disorders Clinic and Division of Sleep Studies, we recruited 57 patients, clinically assessed as having sleep attack and/or EDS. Nocturnal polysomnography and multiple sleep latency test(MSLT) were done in each of the subjects. We selected 19 subjects finally diagnosed as narcolepsy(mean age
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