The sleep of the bereaved

Sleep and Hypnosis

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 18-26

  Monk, Timothy H ^a   Germain, Anne ^b   Buysse, Daniel J ^b  

^a DSc WPIC Room E1123 ^*  (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

Author keywords

Actigraph; Bereavement; Insomnia; Old; Sleep; Widow

Indexed keywords

EID: 70049090204     PISSN: 13021192     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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