Daytime sleep latency in medication‐matched parkinsonian patients with and without sudden onset of sleep
- 2 August 2005
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Wiley in Movement Disorders
- Vol. 20 (12), 1620-1622
- https://doi.org/10.1002/mds.20630
Abstract
Currently, it is unclear whether sleep attacks in Parkinson's disease (PD) represent a novel entity or just a phenomenon of daytime sleepiness. We investigated 10 PD patients with sleep attacks and compared them with 10 PD patients without any daytime sleepiness. The patients were matched according to their dopaminergic medication and subjected to a sleep medical investigation. The mean sleep latency on the multiple sleep latency test was in the normal range and not significantly different between the groups. These data suggest that sleep attacks can occur against a background of normal alertness.Keywords
Funding Information
- Kompetenznetz Parkinson Syndrom (BMBF 01GI0201)
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