Multiple sleep latency test: Technical aspects and normal values

Journal of Clinical Neurophysiology

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 1992, Pages 63-67

  Roehrs, Timothy ^a   Roth, Thomas ^a  

^a HENRY FORD HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Methodology; Multiple Sleep Latency Test; Normative values

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; QUESTIONNAIRE; REFERENCE VALUE; SLEEP;

CEREBRAL CORTEX; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; HUMAN; MONITORING, PHYSIOLOGIC; NARCOLEPSY; REACTION TIME; REFERENCE VALUES; SLEEP STAGES; SUPPORT, U.S. GOV'T, P.H.S.;

EID: 0026543996     PISSN: 07360258     EISSN: 15371603     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00004691-199201000-00007     Document Type: Article

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