Effect of a sunbathing on insomnia and behavioral disturbance of mental retardation: A case report

Sleep and Biological Rhythms

Volumn 4, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 175-178

  Ikemoto, Keiko ^a,b,c   Hirano, Sayaka ^a   Sugiura, Machiko ^a   Suzuki, Yuko ^a   Tobai, Hiroko ^a   Takahashi, Yachiyo ^a   Kurio, Yasuko ^a   Okawa, Masako ^d   Shibuya, Haruo ^a  

^a NATIONAL HOSPITAL ORGANIZATION   (Japan)

^b Department of Psychiatry   (Japan)

^c FUKUSHIMA MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d SHIGA UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Behavioral disturbance; Insomnia; Melatonin; Severe motor and intellectual disabilities; Sunbathing

Indexed keywords

DIAZEPAM; FLUNITRAZEPAM; HYPNOTIC AGENT; LEVOMEPROMAZINE; NITRAZEPAM; PHENOBARBITAL; VALPROIC ACID;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR DISORDER; CASE REPORT; CEREBRAL PALSY; DISEASE EXACERBATION; DRUG DOSE INCREASE; DRUG EFFICACY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EPILEPSY; EXCITEMENT; EXERCISE; FEVER; HEMIPLEGIA; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; INSOMNIA; INTELLECTUAL IMPAIRMENT; MALE; MENTAL DEFICIENCY; MOTOR DYSFUNCTION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHOTOTHERAPY; PRESCRIPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SLEEP WAKING CYCLE; TREATMENT DURATION;

EID: 33845460289     PISSN: 14469235     EISSN: 14798425     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1479-8425.2006.00213.x     Document Type: Article

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