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What is narcolepsy?
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Narcolepsy is a long term brain condition that prevents a person from choosing when to sleep and when to wake
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What genotype is narcolepsy associated with?
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HLA-DR2
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When is the typical onset of narcolepsy?
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Teenage years
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What are the features of narcolepsy?
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Hypersomnolence
Cataplexy
Sleep paralysis
Vivid hallucinations on going to sleep or waking up
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What is the investigation of choice for narcolepsy?
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Multiple sleep latency EEG
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What is the management of narcolepsy?
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Daytime stimulants - modafinil
Nighttime sodium oxybate
7
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What is cataplexy?
A
The sudden loss of muscle tone often triggered by emotion
Neurology
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Decks in class (37)
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Intracranial Haemorrhage26
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Motor Neuron Disease25
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Multiple Sclerosis26
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Misc24
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Stroke33
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Myasthenia Gravis14
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Epilepsy43
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Bulbar palsy7
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Bell's Palsy9
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Parkinson's24
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Meningitis17
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Huntington's Disease7
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Spinal compression and Cauda equina5
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Peripheral neuropathies21
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Guillain Barre Syndrome8
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Normal Pressure Hydrocephalus10
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Encephalitis9
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Acoustic Neuroma10
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Trigeminal Neuralgia3
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Wernicke's encephalopathy7
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Horner's syndrome4
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Neuro178
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Giant Cell Arteritis12
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Cerebellar syndrome7
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Brain abscess4
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Headaches3
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Neurofibromatosis11
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Muscular dystrophies14
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Narcolepsy7
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Herpes simplex encephalitis5
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Shingles12
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Migraine10
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Raised ICP9
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Benign essential tremor7
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Brain metastases7
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Brain tumours12
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Dementia1
