Elevated awaking thresholds during sleep: Characteristics of chronic war-related posttraumatic stress disorder patients

Biological Psychiatry

Volumn 44, Issue 10, 1998, Pages 1060-1065

  Lavie, Peretz ^a   Katz, Neri ^a   Pillar, Giora ^a   Zinger, Yaffa ^b  

^a TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

^b MEDICAL CORPS   (Israel)

Author keywords

Awaking thresholds; Dreaming; Posttraumatic stress disorders; REM sleep

Indexed keywords

ANXIETY; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPRESSION; DREAMING; HUMAN; MENTAL DISEASE; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RATING SCALE; REM SLEEP; SLEEP; SLEEP WAKING CYCLE; SOLDIER; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; WAR;

ADULT; CHRONIC DISEASE; FEMALE; HUMANS; ISRAEL; MALE; PSYCHIATRIC STATUS RATING SCALES; SLEEP; SLEEP, REM; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC; WAKEFULNESS; WAR;

EID: 0032533223     PISSN: 00063223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0006-3223(98)00037-7     Document Type: Article

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