Dulcinea Vega-Dávila, Francisco J Acosta, Guillermo Pírez-Mora, Raúl Amela-Peris, Helena Simpson-Caballero
Narcolepsy is an infrequent neurological disorder, included in the catalog of rare diseases. Despite the existenceof precise diagnostic criteria, this entity remains underdiagnosed. It is characterized by excessive daytime sleepiness associated with cataplexy; in some cases, hypnagogic or hypnopompic hallucinations, auditory hallucinations, and/or delusional ideation may appear. The occurrence of psychotic symptoms makes differential diagnosis extremely difficult (narcolepsy, schizophrenia, or both). Furthermore, therapeutic management may be complex, since the treatment of one of the disorders may worsen the other...
November 2020: Actas Españolas de Psiquiatría