Functional imaging of cataplexy during status cataplecticus

To identify the neural structures and pathways underlying cataplexy during status cataplecticus in a narcoleptic patient, using brain perfusion single photon emission computed tomography (SPECT). A 68-year-old woman with hypocretin-deficient narcolepsy-cataplexy suffered status cataplecticus after h...

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Published in:	Sleep (New York, N.Y.) Vol. 30; no. 2; p. 153
Main Authors:	Chabas, Dorothée, Habert, Marie-Odile, Maksud, Philippe, Tourbah, Ayman, Minz, Michel, Willer, Jean-Claude, Arnulf, Isabelle
Format:	Journal Article
Language:	English
Published:	United States 01.02.2007
Subjects:	Aged Brain - anatomy & histology Brain - diagnostic imaging Brain - metabolism Cataplexy - classification Cataplexy - diagnosis Cataplexy - diagnostic imaging Electroencephalography Female Humans Intracellular Signaling Peptides and Proteins - deficiency Magnetic Resonance Imaging Neuropeptides - deficiency Orexins Severity of Illness Index Sleep, REM - physiology Subtraction Technique Tomography, Emission-Computed, Single-Photon
ISSN:	0161-8105
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