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This report aims to describe the video assessment of the hypotonic and active motor phenomena in childhood narcolepsy with cataplexy performed for two articles specified in the additional information as well as to briefly present the other results of those articles. The video recordings for subjects with narcolepsy with cataplexy and their control groups were assessed for negative and positive cataplectic motor phenomena in two settings: 1st drug-naïve narcolepsy patients compared to healthy controls and evaluated at disease onset and after a follow-up and 2nd post-H1N1 Pandemrix® vaccinated narcolepsy patients compared to sporadic cases. In the first setting the cataplexy severity reflected by hypotonic and active motor phenomena decreased over time and the clinical picture evolved into resembling the classical cataplexy phenotype without spontaneous hypotonia. In the second setting the two groups were similar but subjects with sporadic narcolepsy onset were found to have more active movements of the facial muscles.