Phenomenal qualities of nightmare experience in a prospective study of college students

Dreaming

Volumn 12, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 109-120

  Levin, Ross ^a   Fireman, Gary ^b  

^a YESHIVA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Albert Einstein Coll of Med Campus ^*

Author keywords

Disturbed dreaming; Nightmare distress; Nightmare prevalence

Indexed keywords

EID: 0036106433     PISSN: 10530797     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1015315707100     Document Type: Article

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