Kleine-Levin syndrome (KLS): clinical features

Evidence-based neurology checklist on kleine-levin syndrome (kls): clinical features: Demographic features This is a syndrome of episodic hypersomnia and compulsive eating It usually affects adolescent men: they account for 70% of cases The peak onset age is 14 years: the range is 11-21 years…

Demographic features

  • This is a syndrome of episodic hypersomnia and compulsive eating
  • It usually affects adolescent men: they account for 70% of cases
  • The peak onset age is 14 years: the range is 11-21 years

Genetics

Precipitating causes

Core features

Features of hypersomnia

Eating disorders

Behavioural features

Compulsions

Neuropsychiatric features

Cognitive features

Other features

Differential diagnosis

Synonym

References

  1. Arnulf I, Zeitzer JM, File J, Farber N, Mignot E. Kleine-Levin syndrome: a systematic review of 186 cases in the literature. Brain 2005; 128:2763-2776.
  2. Dauvilliers Y, Mayer G, Lecendreux M, et al. Kleine-Levin syndrome: an autoimmune hypothesis based on clinical and genetic analysis. Neurology 2002; 59:1739-1745.
  3. Al Shareef SM, Basit S, Li S, Pfister C, et al. Kleine-Levin syndrome is associated with LMOD3 variants. J Sleep Res 2018; e12718 (Epub ahead of print).
  4. Ambati A, Hillary R, Leu-Semenescu S, et al. Kleine-Levin syndrome is associated with birth difficulties and genetic variants in the TRANK1 gene loci. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2021; 118:e2005753118.
  5. Groos E, Chaumereuil C, Flamand M, et al. Emerging psychiatric disorders in Kleine-Levin syndrome. J Sleep Res 2018:e12690.
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