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An Etiology of Narcolepsy-Cataplexy and a Proposed Cataplexy Neuromechanism

Lawrence Scrima Sleep Disorders Center, Division of Pulmonary Disease, Mount Sinai Medical Center, Miami Beach, FL, 33140
Pages 69-86 | Received 01 May 1981, Published online: 07 Jul 2009

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Reuven Sandyk. (1997) Resolution of Sleep Paralysis by Weak Electromagnetic Fields in a Patient with Multiple Sclerosis. International Journal of Neuroscience 90:3-4, pages 145-157.
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Lawrence Scrima. (2010) Dreaming Epiphenomena of Narcolepsy. Sleep Medicine Clinics 5:2, pages 261-275.
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J. F. Pagel & Lawrence Scrima. 2010. Narcolepsy. Narcolepsy 129 134 .
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Carsten T. Beuckmann, Christopher M. Sinton, S. Clay Williams, James A. Richardson, Robert E. Hammer, Takeshi Sakurai & Masashi Yanagisawa. (2004) Expression of a Poly-Glutamine-Ataxin-3 Transgene in Orexin Neurons Induces Narcolepsy–Cataplexy in the Rat. The Journal of Neuroscience 24:18, pages 4469-4477.
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Lowell A. Borgen, Richard Okerholm, Dennis Morrison & Allen Lai. (2003) The Influence of Gender and Food on the Pharmacokinetics of Sodium Oxybate Oral Solution in Healthy Subjects. The Journal of Clinical Pharmacology 43:1, pages 59-65.
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Thomas Owley & Joseph Flaherty. (1994) New-Onset Narcolepsy and Paroxetine. Psychosomatics 35:6, pages 585.
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Hakan S. Orer, Nacera Merahi, Anne Nosjean, Henri Gozlan & Raul Laguzzi. (1991) Sleep changes induced by the local application of 5,7-dihydroxytryptamine into the nodose ganglia and aortic denervation in the rat. Pfl�gers Archiv European Journal of Physiology 419:1, pages 21-24.
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Thomas A. Mellman, R. Eugene Ramsay & Stephen G. Fitzgerald. (1991) Divergence of PTSD and narcolepsy associated with military trauma. Journal of Anxiety Disorders 5:3, pages 267-272.
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Lawrence Scrima, Paul G Hartman, Frank H JohnsonJr.Jr. & F Charles Hiller. (1989) Efficacy of gamma-hydroxybutyrate versus placebo in treating narcolepsy-cataplexy: Double-blind subjective measures. Biological Psychiatry 26:4, pages 331-343.
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Felissa L. Cohen. (2006) Narcolepsy: a review of a common, life‐long sleep disorder. Journal of Advanced Nursing 13:5, pages 546-556.
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Lawrence Scrima. (2007) Isolated REM Sleep Facilitates Recall of Complex Associative Information. Psychophysiology 19:3, pages 252-259.
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