Shift-work sleep disorder - The glass is more than half empty

New England Journal of Medicine

Volumn 353, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 519-521

  Basner, Robert C ^a  

^a Department of Neurology and the Taub Institute for Research on Alzheimer's Disease and the Aging Brain   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CAFFEINE; MODAFINIL; BENZHYDRYL DERIVATIVE; CENTRAL STIMULANT AGENT;

ALERTNESS; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; CLINICAL TRIAL; COGNITION; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG SAFETY; EDITORIAL; HUMAN; INSOMNIA; INSULIN RESISTANCE; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; LIFESTYLE; METABOLIC SYNDROME X; NIGHT; PEPTIC ULCER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK ASSESSMENT; SHIFT WORKER; SLEEP DEPRIVATION; SLEEP DISORDER; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; WAKEFULNESS; CHEMICALLY INDUCED DISORDER; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM SLEEP DISORDER; NOTE; SOMNOLENCE; WORK SCHEDULE;

BENZHYDRYL COMPOUNDS; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM STIMULANTS; DISORDERS OF EXCESSIVE SOMNOLENCE; HUMANS; SLEEP DISORDERS, CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; SLEEP INITIATION AND MAINTENANCE DISORDERS; WORK SCHEDULE TOLERANCE;

EID: 23044488199     PISSN: 00284793     EISSN: 15334406     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1056/NEJMe058121     Document Type: Editorial

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