New trends in restless legs syndrome research

Sleep Medicine Reviews

Volumn 10, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 147-151

  Montplaisir, Jacques ^a   Michaud, Martin ^a   Petit, Dominique ^a  

^a HÔPITAL DU SACRÉ COEUR DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DOPAMINE; LEVODOPA; OPIATE;

CHROMOSOME 12Q; CHROMOSOME 14Q; CHROMOSOME 9P; COMORBIDITY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DOPAMINERGIC SYSTEM; EDITORIAL; EPIDEMIOLOGICAL DATA; FAMILIAL DISEASE; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETICS; HUMAN; HYPERSOMNIA; INSOMNIA; LIMB MOVEMENT; MEDICAL RESEARCH; NARCOLEPSY; NEUROPHYSIOLOGY; NONHUMAN; ONSET AGE; PARASOMNIA; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PREVALENCE; RESTLESS LEGS SYNDROME; SLEEP; SLEEP APNEA SYNDROME; SLEEP DISORDER; SYMPTOM; WAKEFULNESS;

BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH; HUMANS; RESTLESS LEGS SYNDROME;

EID: 33744549751     PISSN: 10870792     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.smrv.2006.03.001     Document Type: Editorial

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