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Diagnosing Narcolepsy

Name: Diagnosing Narcolepsy
Uploaded: 2014-02-21T19:31:46Z
Duration: 6 min 15 s
Channel: Harvard Medical School
Description: Dr. Kiran Maski and a young patient explain how sleep and nap studies are used to diagnose narcolepsy.

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Sleep Clinical medicine How sleep works Diagnosis and clinical reasoning

Dr. Kiran Maski and a young patient explain how sleep and nap studies are used to diagnose narcolepsy.

In this video, Dr. Kiran Maski, Instructor of Neurology at Harvard Medical School and a Pediatric Sleep Medicine specialist, and a young patient with narcolepsy and her mother discuss how the diagnosis of narcolepsy was made. It includes how sleep and nap studies are used to confirm the diagnosis. Learn more at healthysleep.med.harvard.edu/narcolepsy/diagnosing-narcoleps… Version that includes an audio-description: youtu.be/gZQuaASUOnI Like Harvard Medical School on Facebook: goo.gl/4dwXyZ Follow on Twitter: goo.gl/GbrmQM Follow on Instagram: goo.gl/s1w4up Follow on LinkedIn: goo.gl/04vRgY Website: hms.harvard.edu

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