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A key challenge is distinguishing excessive sleep duration from excessive daytime sleepiness, as patients may present one or both features, and similar symptoms can arise from diverse medical, psychiatric, and sleep disorders. Current diagnostic criteria rely heavily on the multiple sleep latency test, which frequently underestimates hypersomnia in patients with long sleep need, demonstrates poor test\u2013retest reliability, and separates idiopathic hypersomnia from narcolepsy type 2 based on an unstable count of sleep-onset Rapid Eye Movement (REM) periods. Accurate measurement of long sleep is an unmet need. Actigraphy and sleep diaries frequently misestimate true sleep duration, while extended polysomnography, the gold standard, is rarely feasible outside research. Defining abnormal sleep quantity remains difficult given individual variability and the heterogeneity of idiopathic hypersomnia phenotype. The pathophysiology of idiopathic hypersomnia remains largely speculative. No definitive biomarker has been identified, and proposed mechanisms, including genetic susceptibility, circadian alterations, abnormal slow-wave dynamics, and neurobiology disturbances lack consistent validation. Clinical overlap between idiopathic hypersomnia and hypersomnolence associated with depression suggests potential shared disruptions in arousal and circadian\u2013homeostatic systems, though their neurobiological bases remain unclear. Therapeutic approaches are still limited. Low-sodium oxybate offers symptomatic improvement, and orexin receptor agonists represent an encouraging emerging class. 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