• DOI:10.1053/smrv.2001.0168
Corpus ID: 681023

Idiopathic hypersomnia.

@article{Billiard1996IdiopathicH,
  title={Idiopathic hypersomnia.},
  author={M. Billiard},
  journal={Neurologic clinics},
  year={1996},
  volume={14 3},
  pages={
          573-82
        }
}

M. Billiard

Published 1996

Medicine

Neurologic clinics

Idiopathic hypersomnia is not as well delineated as narcolepsy and its history is much more recent. There are at least two forms of the disorder: (1) a polysymptomatic form, characterized by excessive daytime sleepiness, nocturnal sleep of abnormally long duration, and signs of sleep drunkenness on awakening, and (2) a monosymptomatic form that manifests only by excessive daytime sleepiness. The most widely used laboratory procedures are nocturnal polysomnographic recording following by an MSLT… CONTINUE READING

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