Cataplexy: 'REM-atonia or tonic immobility'?

Sleep Medicine

Volumn 3, Issue 6, 2002, Pages 465-466

  Bassetti, Claudio ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DOPAMINE 2 RECEPTOR;

AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; AREFLEXIA; BRAIN STEM RESPONSE; CATAPLEXY; CHOLINERGIC TRANSMISSION; DOPAMINERGIC NERVE CELL; EDITORIAL; EMOTION; FOREBRAIN; HUMAN; HYPOTHALAMUS; MOTOR ACTIVITY; MUSCLE ATONIA; MUSCLE TONE; NARCOLEPSY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REM SLEEP; TONIC IMMOBILITY;

EID: 0036862980     PISSN: 13899457     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1389-9457(02)00133-8     Document Type: Editorial

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