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A Female Case of the Kleine-Levin Syndrome

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 January 2018

J. P. Duffy  and
Kenneth Davison
J. P. Duffy
Affiliation:
University of Newcastle upon Tyne and Newcastle General Hospital, Newcastle 4
Kenneth Davison
Affiliation:
University of Newcastle upon Tyne and Newcastle General Hospital, Newcastle 4
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Attention was first drawn to this syndrome by Kleine (1925), who described five patients with periodic somnolence, two of whom also had an excessive appetite. Levin (1929) described a youth aged 19 who had suffered from nine attacks of sleepiness and pathological hunger from the age of 16. The attacks lasted from one to six weeks and recurred at intervals of up to twenty-eight weeks, but he eventually recovered spontaneously.

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Research Article
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The British Journal of Psychiatry , Volume 114 , Issue 506 , January 1968 , pp. 77 - 84
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Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1968 

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