Melatonin therapy for REM sleep behavior disorder

Psychiatry and Clinical Neurosciences

Volumn 55, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 267-269

  Takeuchi, Noboru ^a,d   Uchimura, Naohisa ^a   Hashizume, Yuji ^a   Mukai, Masaki ^a   Etoh, Yoshinori ^b   Yamamoto, Katsuyasu ^b   Kotorii, Tatayu ^a   Ohshima, Hiroharu ^b   Ohshima, Masachika ^c   Maeda, Hisao ^a  

^a KURUME UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b Kotorii Isahaya Hospital   (Japan)

^c Ohshima Hospital   (Japan)

^d KURUME UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Japan)

Author keywords

Melatonin polysomnography; REM sleep behavior disorder; Tonic REM activity phasic REM activity

Indexed keywords

CLONAZEPAM; MELATONIN;

CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONFERENCE PAPER; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MUSCLE ATONIA; PARASOMNIA; POLYSOMNOGRAPHY; REM SLEEP; SLEEP DISORDER; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MELATONIN; MIDDLE AGED; POLYSOMNOGRAPHY; REM SLEEP BEHAVIOR DISORDER; SLEEP STAGES;

EID: 0034979639     PISSN: 13231316     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1440-1819.2001.00854.x     Document Type: Conference Paper

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