"I feel my arm shaking": Partial cataplexy mistaken for drug-resistant focal epilepsy

There is often a considerable delay in the diagnosis of narcolepsy1,2. This is partly due to the insidious nature of disease onset and incomplete presence of characteristic symptoms2. Moreover, narcolepsy may mimic other neurological diseases (in particular, epilepsy) due to the presence of paroxysmal events3. Epilepsy, which is much more prevalent, might thus appear as a straightforward diagnosis, especially if the symptoms are focal and associated with abnormal movements or jerks.table 1.

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