Residual effects of benzodiazepine and non-benzodiazepine hypnotics on diurnal attention in a reaction time task

Psicothema

Volumn 13, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 290-293

  Vera, Francisca ^b   Navarro, José Francisco ^a   Blanca, Ma José ^b   Luna, Gustavo ^b   Fernández Guardiola, Augusto ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MÁLAGA   (Spain)

^b NONE

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