Rapid eye movement sleep in breath holders

Journal of Child Neurology

Volumn 15, Issue 7, 2000, Pages 449-452

  Kohyama, Jun ^a,b   Hasegawa, Takeshi ^b   Shimohira, Masayuki ^b   Fukumizu, Michio ^b   Iwakawa, Yoshihide ^b  

^a Tsuchiura Kyoudo Hospital   (Japan)

^b TOKYO MEDICAL AND DENTAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIRWAY OBSTRUCTION; ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN STEM; BREATH HOLDING; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FATALITY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; OXYGEN SATURATION; POLYSOMNOGRAPHY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REM SLEEP; WAKEFULNESS;

EID: 0033928170     PISSN: 08830738     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/088307380001500705     Document Type: Article

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