Stepanski E J, Markey J J, Zorick F J, Roth T
Sleep Disorders and Research Center, Henry Ford Hospital, Detroit, MI 48202.
Henry Ford Hosp Med J. 1990;38(4):219-22.
Patients with narcolepsy have more psychiatric symptoms than normal controls as measured by psychometric tests. However, it is unclear whether these findings are specific to narcolepsy, as some studies have suggested, or related to excessive daytime sleepiness (EDS) or to chronic illness. We compared a group of 56 narcoleptics to age- and sex-matched controls with EDS. A group of 48 individuals with normal sleep architecture was also used as an additional control group. Both the narcoleptic group and the EDS-control group had significantly greater scores on Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory scales but were not different from each other. Our data suggest that the psychopathology associated with narcolepsy is not specific and may be generalized among patients with disorders of excessive sleepiness.
通过心理测量测试发现，发作性睡病患者比正常对照组有更多的精神症状。然而，目前尚不清楚这些发现是如一些研究所表明的那样，是发作性睡病所特有的，还是与日间过度嗜睡（EDS）或慢性病有关。我们将一组56名发作性睡病患者与年龄和性别匹配的患有EDS的对照组进行了比较。另一组48名睡眠结构正常的个体也被用作额外的对照组。发作性睡病组和EDS对照组在明尼苏达多相人格量表上的得分均显著更高，但两组之间没有差异。我们的数据表明，与发作性睡病相关的精神病理学并非特异性的，可能在过度嗜睡症患者中普遍存在。
