NARCOLEPSY
A Review and Presentation of Seven Cases
WILLIAM F. MURPHY M. D.1
1 Instructor in neuropsychiatry, Tufts Medical School; assistant in the department of nervous and mental diseases, Boston Dispensary.
1. Narcolepsy is a borderline syndrome common to cases of both functional and organic brain disease.
2. The pathogenesis is the same in both cases and consists of the release of a primitive type of sleep mechanism.
3. Narcoleptic sleep is indistinguishable in appearance and electroencephalographically from normal sleep.
