Kleine-Levin syndrome

[ klahyn-luh-vin ]
/ ˈklaɪn ləˈvɪn /

noun Pathology.

prolonged episodes of excessive sleepiness often accompanied by overeating, hallucinations, and electroencephalogram changes, usually beginning in adolescence.

Origin of Kleine-Levin syndrome

after German psychologist Willi Kleine (flourished 1925) and U.S. psychologist Max Levin (born 1901), who independently described it in the 1920s