Sleep events among veterans with combat-related posttraumatic stress disorder

American Journal of Psychiatry

Volumn 152, Issue 1, 1995, Pages 110-115

  Mellman, Thomas A ^a,b   Kulick Bell, Renee ^a   Ashlock, Lawrence E ^a   Nolan, Bruce ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI MILLER SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PSYCHOTROPIC AGENT;

ADULT; AROUSAL; ARTICLE; BODY MOVEMENT; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DREAM; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; HUMAN; LIMB MOVEMENT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTICENTER STUDY; NIGHTMARE; PANIC; POLYSOMNOGRAPHY; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RATING SCALE; REM SLEEP; SLEEP DISORDER; SOLDIER;

EID: 0028860236     PISSN: 0002953X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1176/ajp.152.1.110     Document Type: Article

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