Home-recorded sleep architecture as a function of handedness II: Consistent right- versus consistent left-handers

Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease

Volumn 195, Issue 8, 2007, Pages 689-692

  Propper, Ruth E ^a   Christman, Stephen D ^b   Olejarz, Sarah ^a  

^a MERRIMACK COLLEGE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOLEDO   (United States)

Author keywords

Hand preference; Handedness; Individual differences; Left handed; Sleep

Indexed keywords

ESCITALOPRAM;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATIONAL STUDY; DEPRESSION; FEMALE; HUMAN; LEFT HANDEDNESS; MALE; RIGHT HANDEDNESS; SLEEP PATTERN;

ADULT; BRAIN; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; INDIVIDUALITY; MONITORING, PHYSIOLOGIC; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; SLEEP; SLEEP STAGES; SLEEP, REM;

EID: 34547898775     PISSN: 00223018     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/NMD.0b013e31811f44b8     Document Type: Article

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