Healthy sleepers are rare: Problems and success rates in establishing a control group for sleep studies

Neuropsychopharmacology

Volumn 28, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 558-561

  Fietze, Ingo ^a   Diefenbach, Konstanze ^a  

^a CHARITÉ UNIVERSITÄTSMEDIZIN BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Healthy volunteers; Sleep; Sleep disorders

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PATIENT; PATIENT SELECTION; PHYSIOLOGY; POLYSOMNOGRAPHY; SLEEP; SLEEP DISORDER; STANDARD; STATISTICS;

ADULT; AGED; FEMALE; HUMAN EXPERIMENTATION; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT DROPOUTS; PATIENT SELECTION; POLYSOMNOGRAPHY; SLEEP; SLEEP DISORDERS;

EID: 0038352207     PISSN: 0893133X     EISSN: 1740634X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/sj.npp.1300082     Document Type: Article

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