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DESIGN: Sleep laboratory study PARTICIPANTS: Sixteen patients with narcolepsy and cataplexy matched for age and sex with 16 patients with "idiopathic" RBD and with 16 normal controls were studied.
The difference is that type 1 narcolepsy has cataplexy, the sudden loss of muscle tone, while type 2 does not. Despite the typical depiction of narcolepsy, it's not only excessive daytime sleepiness.