Post-traumatic stress disorder and sleep - What a nightmare!

Sleep Medicine Reviews

Volumn 4, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 183-200

  Pillar, Giora ^a   Malhotra, Atul ^a   Lavie, Peretz ^a  

^a TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Nightmares; PTSD; REM sleep; Sleep disorder

Indexed keywords

COMORBIDITY; DREAM; INSOMNIA; NIGHTMARE; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; REM SLEEP; REVIEW; SLEEP DISORDER; WAKEFULNESS;

EID: 0034014959     PISSN: 10870792     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1053/smrv.1999.0095     Document Type: Article

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