Sleep syncope: a new clinical entity or just a vasovagal syncope during wakefulness after sleep onset?

Philippe T Gilchrist¹, Federica Provini^{2

3}

Affiliations

¹ School of Psychological Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, Health, and Human Sciences, Macquarie University, North Ryde, NSW, Australia.
² Department of Biomedical and NeuroMotor Sciences (DiBiNeM), University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy. federica.provini@unibo.it.
³ IRCCS, Istituto delle Scienze Neurologiche di Bologna, Bologna, Italy. federica.provini@unibo.it.

Editorial

Philippe T Gilchrist et al. Clin Auton Res. 2022 Feb.

. 2022 Feb;32(1):5-6.

doi: 10.1007/s10286-021-00847-w. Epub 2022 Jan 11.

Philippe T Gilchrist¹, Federica Provini^{2

3}

¹ School of Psychological Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, Health, and Human Sciences, Macquarie University, North Ryde, NSW, Australia.
² Department of Biomedical and NeuroMotor Sciences (DiBiNeM), University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy. federica.provini@unibo.it.
³ IRCCS, Istituto delle Scienze Neurologiche di Bologna, Bologna, Italy. federica.provini@unibo.it.

No abstract available

Keywords: Gastrointestinal; Loss of consciousness; Neurally mediated syncope; Nocturnal syncope.

Comment on

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