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

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Mandana Mahmoudi Author

Subjects of specialization
Internal Medicine, Sleep Medicine

Affiliation
Department of Sleep Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, Massachusetts, USA

Biography

Dr. Mandana Mahmoudi is physician in Internal Medicine. She is currently working in New York, USA. She received Post-graduation MD in Sleep Medicine from Harvard Medical School. Her research interests, as a Physician lies in Sleep Medicine, Internal Medicine. She is the Editorial Board Member of many peer reviewed journals and her area of expertise, as an Physician credits her with many publications in national and international journals. She is committed to highest standards of excellence and it proves through her authorship of many books.


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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 moreĀ»

DOI: 10.4172/2325-9639.1000106

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