Sleeping Beauty Syndrome - a neurological disorder in which a person is sleeping all the time

Another name for this disorder - Syndrome Kleine - Levin. The reasons are unknown. Here's how to describe the behavior of such patients Wikipedia:

"Patients are sleeping most of the day (up to 18 hours, and sometimes longer), waking only to eat and go to the toilet; become irritable or aggressive, if they were not allowed to sleep. In patients experiencing confusion, disorientation, fatigue, apathy. Patients are not able to go to school or work, take care of themselves, bedridden. Characterized by cognitive impairment, possible amnesia for the event, hallucinations, dreamlike state. Most patients complain that everything around seems to be "out of focus", sensitive to noise and light. »

Sleeping Beauty syndrome usually develops in an interval between 13 and 19 years, is more common in men. It is expressed in bouts of continuous sleep every 3 - 6 months. Seizures usually last 2 - 3 days.

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