Sleep spindles in post traumatic stress disorder: Significant importance of selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors

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Volumn 147, Issue 10, 2008, Pages 763-767

  Dotan, Yaniv ^a   Suraiya, Suheir ^a   Pillar, Giora ^a  

^a TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Arousal inhibitory mechanism (AIM); PSG; PTSD; Sleep spindles; SSRI's

Indexed keywords

CITALOPRAM; PAROXETINE; SEROTONIN UPTAKE INHIBITOR; SERTRALINE;

ARTICLE; DRUG EFFECT; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; ELECTROOCULOGRAPHY; HUMAN; INSOMNIA; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; REFERENCE VALUE; REM SLEEP; SLEEP; SLEEP STAGE; WAKEFULNESS;

CITALOPRAM; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; ELECTROOCULOGRAPHY; HUMANS; PAROXETINE; REFERENCE VALUES; SEROTONIN UPTAKE INHIBITORS; SERTRALINE; SLEEP; SLEEP INITIATION AND MAINTENANCE DISORDERS; SLEEP STAGES; SLEEP, REM; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC; WAKEFULNESS;

EID: 56349087482     PISSN: 00177768     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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