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Springer, Sleep and Biological Rhythms, (11), p. 6-8, 2013

DOI: 10.1111/j.1479-8425.2012.00543.x

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Disconjugated binocular eye movements at onset of multiple sleep latency test in childhood narcolepsy

Journal article published in 2013 by Markku Partinen ORCID
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Abstract

In four of six subjects with narcolepsy, multiple sleep latency tests-examined disconjugated binocular eye movements were observed in the very beginning of multiple sleep latency test recordings. The eye movements appeared before disappearance of alpha and decrease of chin electromyography. All subjects with disconjugated eye movements had also rapid eye movement sleep without atonia and symptoms of rapid eye movement behavior disorder in their past history. Three of them (all children) had post-vaccination narcolepsy. It is not known whether such eye movements are seen in most narcoleptic subjects or whether they are more common in autoimmune/inflammatory narcolepsy with involvement of the structures that coordinate eye movements.