Relationship between dim light melatonin onset and the timing of sleep in sleep onset insomniacs

Sleep and Biological Rhythms

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 78-80

  Wright, Helen ^a   Lack, Leon ^a   Bootzin, Richard ^b  

^a FLINDERS UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b University of Arizona   (United States)

Author keywords

DLMO; Melatonin; Sleep timing

Indexed keywords

MELATONIN;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATIONAL STUDY; HUMAN; INSOMNIA; LIGHT EXPOSURE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SLEEP TIME; SLEEP WAKING CYCLE; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE;

EID: 33646674476     PISSN: 14469235     EISSN: 14798425     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1479-8425.2006.00194.x     Document Type: Article

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