Vahid Mohsenin Author
Subjects of specialization
Affiliation
Internal Medicine, Sleep Medicine
Department of Sleep Medicine, Yale Center for Sleep Medicine, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut, USA
Dr. Mohsenin graduated from Yale University Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine in 1982. He is the director of Yale Center for Sleep Medicine and a fellow of the American Academy of Sleep Medicine and the American College of Chest Physicians. He has been elected as Fellow National by the Explorers Club.
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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»