Narcolepsy: differential diagnosis or etiology in some cases of bipolar disorder and schizophrenia?
CNS Spectrums February 1, 2003 Alan B Douglass
Does narcolepsy, a neurological disease, need to be considered when diagnosing major mental illness? Clinicians have reported cases of narcolepsy with prominent hypnagogic hallucinations that were mistakenly diagnosed as schizophrenia. In some bipolar disorder patients with narcolepsy, the HH resulted in their receiving a more severe diagnosis (ie, bipolar disorder with psychotic features or...