Does exercise truly enhance sleep?

Physician and Sportsmedicine

Volumn 25, Issue 10, 1997, Pages

  Youngstedt, Shawn D ^a,b  

^a University of California San Diego School of Medicine   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGING; ANXIETY; BEHAVIOR THERAPY; BODY TEMPERATURE; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; DEPRESSION; EXERCISE; FITNESS; HUMAN; INSOMNIA; PHOTOTHERAPY; REVIEW; SLEEP; SLEEP APNEA SYNDROME;

EID: 0343554656     PISSN: 00913847     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3810/psm.1997.10.1473     Document Type: Review

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