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multiple sleep latency test
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multiple sleep latency test [¦məl·tə·pəl ′slēp ‚lāt·ən·sē ‚test]
(medicine)
A test used to document pathologic sleepiness and diagnose narcolepsy in which recordings of brain waves, muscle activities, and eye movements are taken while a person spends the day in a sleep laboratory, taking naps at intervals.


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A modern MSLT study revealed that REM deprivation enhanced alertness in their sleep-deprived group.
With people with Narcolepsy, MSLT or Multiple Sleep Latency Tests can de done to measure the number of times the patient was able to fall fast asleep and how frequently they experienced REM sleep.
Without the MSLT and cataplexy, the diagnosis narcolepsy is truly meaningless and such a condition is more properly labeled idiopathic hypersomnia.
 
 
 
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