KLS World Organization kleinelevin syndrome is a complex medical disorder that causes random episodesof excessive There are no tests to diagnose kleine-levin syndrome (KLS). http://www.klsworld.com/
Extractions: Kleine-Levin syndrome is a rare disorder that causes recurring periods of excessive drowsiness and sleep (up to 20 hours per day). Symptoms, which may last for days to weeks, include excessive food intake, irritability, disorientation, lack of energy, and hypersensitivity to noise. Some patients may also experience hallucinations and an abnormally uninhibited sex drive. Affected persons are normal between episodes, although depression and amnesia may be noted temporarily after an attack. It may be weeks or more before symptoms reappear. Onset is typically around adolescence to the late teens. The disorder is 4 times more common in males than in females. Symptoms may be related to malfunction of the hypothalamus, the part of the brain that governs appetite and sleep.
Kleine-Levin Syndrome Foundation, Inc. Provides information and support for those people who have KLS or who have a loved one with KLS and to provide them the opportunity to get in touch with other KLS persons. http://www.kleinelevin.com/
Extractions: Welcome to the Kleine-Levin Syndrome Foundation, Inc. Website KLS is a rare medical disorder that first manifests in adolescence, characterized primarily by episodes of excessive sleep and altered behavior. The KLS Foundation provides information and support to those diagnosed with KLS and their families. The Foundation exchanges information with patients and the medical community to help in the diagnosis and care of those affected by KLS. Our goals are to raise awareness, support scientific research, to find effective treatment and ultimately find a cure for Kleine-Levin Syndrome. The website was first developed in 1998 by Cindy and Dick Maier and their son, Stephen, who has KLS. It began as a way for the family to find just one other person with KLS and evolved into a way to support families and individuals with KLS when they discovered hundreds of other people affected by KLS. In 1999, they formed the Kleine-Levin Syndrome Foundation, Inc., a non-profit organization, to help others with KLS and eventually determine the cause and cure for KLS. What is KLS?
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Extractions: This survey of medical eponyms and the persons behind them is meant as a general interest site only. No information found here must under any circumstances be used for medical purposes, diagnostically, therapeutically or otherwise. If you, or anybody close to you, is affected, or believe to be affected, by any condition mentioned here: see a doctor. A strange condition of unknown aetiology which almost exclusively affects young males aged 15-25 years. Characterized by periods lasting from days to weeks of attacks of somnolence accompanied by excessive food intake, and various mental symptoms. Common mental symptoms are confusion, irritability, restlessness, euphoria, hallucinations, delusions, and schizophreniform states. Attacks may occur every 3 to 6 months and last from 2 to 3 days. Between attacks the patients recover completely and the sleep periods usually disappear in adult age. This syndrome may easily be confused for other neurological, metabolical or psychiatric disease
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Extractions: This survey of medical eponyms and the persons behind them is meant as a general interest site only. No information found here must under any circumstances be used for medical purposes, diagnostically, therapeutically or otherwise. If you, or anybody close to you, is affected, or believe to be affected, by any condition mentioned here: see a doctor. Abels' test The traditional number-sorting test for evaluating the capacity for concentration, and for diagnosing disturbances of concentration. Ahasuerus' reaction A variant of Münchhausens syndrome. Ahasuerus' syndrome (Münchhausen's syndrome) A type of malingering or factitious disorder in which the patient, usually a vagrant, wander from hospital to hospital, feigning severe illness of dramatic and emergency nature in order to be admitted. Alice in Wonderland syndrome A psychopathological syndrome of distorted space, time and body image.
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Extractions: School of Medicine Home Departments Center for Narcolepsy Center for Narcolepsy Home Contact Info Research Update History ... Kleine-Levin Syndrome The Stanford University Center for Narcolepsy has launched a study on Kleine-Levin Syndrome. Why this study? answer Is Kleine-Levin Syndrome an auto-immune disease? answer What is the Stanford project for HLA study in KLS? answer Who can enroll? answer What do I engage myself to do if I take part? answer What is the procedure for enrollment? answer What does it cost? answer Is there any risk in taking part in the study? answer When is the study beginning/ending? answer When and how will I receive my results? answer Can I change my mind? answer Contact information jump Why this study? The cause of KLS is unknown. All diagnostic test results on KLS patients to date, including brain imagery, EEG, serum virus titres, and CSF examination, have been normal. However, nearly half of the patients experience a non-specific, mainly flu-like infectious disease few days before the onset of their first KLS episode. The rarity of the KLS, compared to the high frequency of flu-like diseases in the general population, suggests that some patients may be more predisposed to KLS. This vulnerability may be genetic. Is Kleine-Levin Syndrome an auto-immune disease In KLS, the association of an infection before the onset of a disease, a young age at onset, a recurrence of symptoms and possible genetic predisposition is suggestive of an autoimmune disease. Various autoimmune diseases are tightly linked to a specific human leukocyte antigen (HLA) typing (this is a group that is not, like group A, B, O, on our red cells, but on our white cells). The immune system indeed distinguishes self-antigens from foreign antigens through the cell surface expression of the highly polymorphic HLA glycoprotein antigens. HLA system (allele HLA-DQB1*0602) is highly associated with another sleep disorder, narcolepsy. It has been poorly studied in KLS patients, but a recent study in Europe yield a higher than controls frequency of the HLA-DQB1*201 allele in 30 KLS patients, a group that has been associated to various auto-immune diseases. It is now necessary to extend and specify the measure to a much larger number of patients and families.
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