narcolepsy with the ability to fall asleep if at all tired or bored, often with social embarrassment. It may lead to the inability to hold down a job.
Are there treatments?
Hypnagogic hallucinations can be treated with REM-suppressing antidepressants, such as venlafaxine or other selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors. Despite their alleged role in causing hypnagogic and hypnopompic hallucinations, tricyclic antidepressants are also recommended for their treatment when associated with narcolepsy.
However, a Cochrane review was unimpressed by the evidence. Fluoxetine has also been recommended for this indication. Musical hallucinations may be helped by olanzapine, quetiapine, fluvoxamine, clomipramine, carbamazepine, valproate, and donepezil.
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