Menstrual factors in sleep

Sleep Medicine Reviews

Volumn 2, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 213-229

  Driver, Helen S ^a,c   Baker, Fiona C ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND   (South Africa)

^c TORONTO WESTERN HOSPITAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

Dysmenorrhea; Estrogen; Female; Gender; Late luteal phase dysphoric disorder; Menstrual cycle; Progesterone; Sleep; Young adults; aminobutyric acidA

Indexed keywords

EID: 0000072871     PISSN: 10870792     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1087-0792(98)90009-0     Document Type: Review

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