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What would prompt you to consider a sleep study for narcolepsy in a child or adolescent with new-onset hallucinations?

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Psychiatry · The University of New Mexico

It would depend on other elements of the history. The age of the child, the timing of the hallucinations, particularly if they are associated with sleep, onset or awakening, other hypersomnia disorder symptoms, and the child's psychiatric history.

Generally, I have a very low threshold for an in-lab...

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