The Kleine-Levin syndrome: A paramedian thalamic dysfunction?

Sleep

Volumn 28, Issue 8, 2005, Pages 915-916

  Billiard, Michel ^a  

^a GUI DE CHAULIAC HOSPITAL   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIOR DISORDER; BRAIN PERFUSION; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; EDITORIAL; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; HYPERSOMNIA; NONREM SLEEP; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RARE DISEASE; REM SLEEP; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; SYNDROME DELINEATION; THALAMUS;

EID: 23844535774     PISSN: 01618105     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/sleep/28.8.915     Document Type: Editorial

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