Role of the sleeping/waking brain in the pathogenesis of fibromyalgia, chronic fatigue syndrome, and related disorders

Primary Psychiatry

Volumn 13, Issue 9, 2006, Pages 52-58

  Moldofsky, Harvey ^a,b  

^a Centre for Sleep and Chronobiology   (Canada)

^b NONE   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NEUROKININ; SEROTONIN; SUBSTANCE P;

CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; CHRONIC FATIGUE SYNDROME; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; COMORBIDITY; DEPRESSION; DISTRESS SYNDROME; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; FATIGUE; FIBROMYALGIA; HUMAN; MENTAL DISEASE; MOOD; MUSCULOSKELETAL PAIN; NEUROTRANSMISSION; NIGHT SLEEP; NOCICEPTION; NONHUMAN; PAIN; POLYSOMNOGRAPHY; PREVALENCE; REVIEW; SLEEP WAKING CYCLE; SYNDROME DELINEATION;

EID: 33748943350     PISSN: 10826319     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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