Excessive twitch movements in rapid eye movement sleep with daytime sleepiness

Psychiatry and Clinical Neurosciences

Volumn 51, Issue 6, 1997, Pages 393-396

  Mizuma, Hikari ^a   Sakamoto, Tetsuro ^a  

^a KURUME UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Excessive daytime sleepiness; Fragmentary myoclonus; Periodic movement in sleep; REM sleep; Twitching

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; HUMAN; MALE; MUSCLE TWITCH; MYOCLONUS; NIGHT SLEEP; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; POLYSOMNOGRAPHY; REM SLEEP; SLEEP DISORDER; SOMNOLENCE;

EID: 0031466062     PISSN: 13231316     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1440-1819.1997.tb02606.x     Document Type: Article

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