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Kleine–Levin syndrome is named after Willi Kleine and Max Levin, who reviewed the syndrome in 1925 and 1936 respectively. The syndrome was first described by the French physician Edmé Pierre Chauvot de Beauchêne (1748–1824) in 1786. The term Kleine–Levin syndrome was introduced by the British neurologist MacDonald Critchley (1900-1997) in 1942.
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