Journal of Sleep Disorders: Treatment and CareISSN: 2325-9639

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Christine Won Author

christine.won@yale.edu

Subjects of specialization
Sleep Medicine , Sleep Apnea, Insomnia, Narcolepsy

Affiliation
Department of sleep medicine, Yale Center for Sleep Medicine, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut, USA

Biography

Dr. Christine Won is an Associate Professor of Medicine in the section of Pulmonary, Critical Care, and Sleep Medicine. She serves as the Medical Director of the Yale Centers for Sleep Medicine, and the Director of the Yale Women's Sleep Health program. Her interests include complex sleep disordered breathing, and sleep disorders in women. She is a member of the American Academy of Sleep Medicine Presidential Committee on Telemedicine. She is also President-Elect of the Society of Anesthesia and Sleep Medicine.

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Narcolepsy-Characteristics of those in the Borderland-We Need a Better Diagnostic Tool

Author(s):

Mandana Mahmoudi, Christine Won and Vahid Mohsenin

Narcolepsy-Characteristics of those in the Borderland-We Need a Better Diagnostic Tool

Purpose: The criteria for the diagnosis of narcolepsy changed when the 2nd edition of the International Classification of Sleep Disorders supplanted the first edition (ICSD-1). The impact of using the updated criteria is unknown. We thus compared the characteristics of a population of patients diagnosed using ICSD- 2 with those that only met ICSD-1 criteria. Minimum criteria for narcolepsy in ICSD-1 are sleepiness with cataplexy, sleep paralysis, or hypnogogic hallucinations plus sleep latency &... view more»

DOI: 10.4172/2325-9639.1000106

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