A Striking Response to Lithium in Kleine–Levin Syndrome

Kleine–Levin syndrome (KLS) is an episodic hypersomnia with cognitive disturbances such as confusion, apathy, and derealization. Hyperphagia and hypersexuality occur in around 50% of cases. No evidence-based treatments have been established for KLS. Many drugs have been tried, most often with little...

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Autor principal: Sveinsson, Olafur
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Frontiers Media S.A. 2014
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Neuroscience
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3968761/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24711803
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fneur.2014.00033
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description Kleine–Levin syndrome (KLS) is an episodic hypersomnia with cognitive disturbances such as confusion, apathy, and derealization. Hyperphagia and hypersexuality occur in around 50% of cases. No evidence-based treatments have been established for KLS. Many drugs have been tried, most often with little success. Here, a case with a striking response to lithium is presented.
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spelling pubmed-39687612014-04-07 A Striking Response to Lithium in Kleine–Levin Syndrome Sveinsson, Olafur Front Neurol Neuroscience Kleine–Levin syndrome (KLS) is an episodic hypersomnia with cognitive disturbances such as confusion, apathy, and derealization. Hyperphagia and hypersexuality occur in around 50% of cases. No evidence-based treatments have been established for KLS. Many drugs have been tried, most often with little success. Here, a case with a striking response to lithium is presented. Frontiers Media S.A. 2014-03-21 /pmc/articles/PMC3968761/ /pubmed/24711803 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fneur.2014.00033 Text en Copyright © 2014 Sveinsson. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) or licensor are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.
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A Striking Response to Lithium in Kleine–Levin Syndrome
title A Striking Response to Lithium in Kleine–Levin Syndrome
title_full A Striking Response to Lithium in Kleine–Levin Syndrome
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title_short A Striking Response to Lithium in Kleine–Levin Syndrome
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topic Neuroscience
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3968761/
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