Cultural Variation in the Clinical Presentation of Sleep Paralysis

Transcultural Psychiatry

Volumn 42, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 78-92

  de Jong, Joop T V M ^a  

^a VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

culture; ethnic variations; parasomnias; sleep paralysis; transcultural psychiatry

Indexed keywords

ANTIDEPRESSANT AGENT;

ADULT; ALCOHOL ABUSE; ALTERNATIVE MEDICINE; ANOREXIA; ARTICLE; BACKACHE; BEREAVEMENT; CARDIAC ANXIETY; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; DEPRESSION; DIAGNOSTIC ERROR; DISSOCIATIVE DISORDER; EPILEPSY; ETHNIC DIFFERENCE; FEMALE; GRIEF; GUINEA-BISSAU; HEADACHE; HUMAN; HYPNOSIS; MAJOR DEPRESSION; MALE; MELANCHOLIA; MENTAL DISEASE; MOROCCO; MUSCLE WEAKNESS; NETHERLANDS; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; PARASOMNIA; PSYCHOSIS; SEXUAL DYSFUNCTION; SLEEP DISORDER; STOMACH PAIN; SURINAME; THORAX PAIN;

EID: 16344387328     PISSN: 13634615     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1363461505050711     Document Type: Article

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