Psychotic symptoms in narcolepsy: phenomenology and a comparison with schizophrenia.
General Hospital Psychiatry 2009 Hal A Droogleever Fortuyn, G A Lappenschaar, Fokko J Nienhuis et al.
Patients with narcolepsy often experience pervasive hypnagogic hallucinations, sometimes even leading to confusion with schizophrenia. We aimed to provide a detailed qualitative description of hypnagogic hallucinations and other "psychotic" symptoms in patients with narcolepsy and contrast these with schizophrenia patients and healthy controls. We also compared the prevalence of formal...