Moon cycle effects on humans: Myth or reality?

Salud Mental

Volumn 23, Issue 6, 2000, Pages 33-39

  Munoz Delgado J ^a   Santillan Doherty A M ^a   Mondragon Ceballos R ^a   Erkert, H G ^a  

^a INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE PSIQUIATRÍA RAMÓN DE LA FUENTE MUÑIZ   (Mexico)

Author keywords

Behaviour; Humans; Lunar cycles; Primates

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; BIOLOGICAL RHYTHM; CHRONOBIOLOGY; CRIMINAL BEHAVIOR; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; LIGHT; MOON; NOISE; PERIODICITY; PSYCHOTRAUMA; SLEEP WAKING CYCLE; STIMULUS; SUICIDAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 0034481036     PISSN: 01853325     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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