Effects of zopiclone on sleep architecture

Reviews in Contemporary Pharmacotherapy

Volumn 9, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 89-108

  Billiard, M ^a   Besset, A ^a  

^a GUI DE CHAULIAC HOSPITAL   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HYPNOTIC AGENT; ZOPICLONE;

AROUSAL; COMPUTER ANALYSIS; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; HUMAN; INSOMNIA; LATENT PERIOD; REM SLEEP; REVIEW; SLEEP; SLEEP SPINDLE; SLEEP STAGE;

EID: 0031979617     PISSN: 09548602     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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