Sleep in the wake of complicated grief symptoms: An exploratory study

Biological Psychiatry

Volumn 41, Issue 6, 1997, Pages 710-716

  McDermott, Owen D ^a   Prigerson, Holly G ^a   Reynolds III, Charles F ^a   Houck, Patricia R ^a   Dew, Mary Amanda ^a   Hall, Martica ^a   Mazumdar, Sati ^a   Buysse, Daniel J ^a   Hoch, Carolyn C ^a   Kupfer, David J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

complicated grief; depression; sleep

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BEREAVEMENT; DEPRESSION; DISTRESS SYNDROME; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FEMALE; GRIEF; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REM SLEEP;

AGED; DEPRESSIVE DISORDER; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EMOTIONS; FEMALE; GRIEF; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POLYSOMNOGRAPHY; SLEEP; SLEEP, REM;

EID: 0030966958     PISSN: 00063223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0006-3223(96)00118-7     Document Type: Article

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