Why has sleepwalking research been “sleepwalking”?

Neurology

Volumn 70, Issue 24, 2008, Pages 2274-2275

  Pressman, Mark R ^a  

^a LANKENAU INSTITUTE FOR MEDICAL RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIAGNOSTIC TEST; HUMAN; NOTE; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; RESEARCH; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SLEEP WALKING; ANXIETY; AROUSAL; BRAIN FUNCTION; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; CLINICAL RESEARCH; CRIME; EDITORIAL; MEDICOLEGAL ASPECT; MOTIVATION; NEUROPHYSIOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOTRAUMA; RELIABILITY; REM SLEEP; VIOLENCE;

DIAGNOSTIC TESTS, ROUTINE; HUMANS; RESEARCH; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SOMNAMBULISM;

EID: 46049084642     PISSN: 00283878     EISSN: 1526632X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1212/01.wnl.0000314658.09038.0f     Document Type: Editorial

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