Sexual behaviour in sleep. An internet survey

Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology

Volumn 42, Issue 12, 2007, Pages 1024-1031

  Trajanovic, Nikola N ^a,b   Mangan, Michael ^c   Shapiro, Colin M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HEALTH NETWORK   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BELGRADE   (Serbia)

Author keywords

Epidemiology; Medico legal; Parasomnia; Sexsomnia; Sexual behaviour in sleep; Sleep

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA ANALYSIS; DRUG USE; FATIGUE; FEMALE; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INTERNET; MALE; MEDICOLEGAL ASPECT; PARASOMNIA; SEX DIFFERENCE; SEXSOMNIA; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SEXUAL ORIENTATION; SLEEP; STRESS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; DATA COLLECTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERNET; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SLEEP; SLEEP STAGES;

EID: 37049039474     PISSN: 09337954     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00127-007-0258-0     Document Type: Article

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