Schizophrenia, sleep disturbances and the suprachiasmatic nucleus: Reduced nitric oxide synthase may matter

Medical Hypotheses

Volumn 74, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 397-398

  Bernstein, Hans Gert ^a   Heinemann, Arndt ^b   Steiner, Johann ^a   Bogerts, Bernhard ^a  

^a OTTO VON GUERICKE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b Walter Friedrich Krankenhaus Olvenstedt   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NEURONAL NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE;

BRAIN DYSFUNCTION; BRAIN MAPPING; HUMAN; LETTER; NONHUMAN; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REM SLEEP; SCHIZOPHRENIA; SLEEP DISORDER; SLEEP INDUCTION; SLEEP WAKING CYCLE; SUPRACHIASMATIC NUCLEUS;

CONTINUOUS POSITIVE AIRWAY PRESSURE; DELUSIONS; HUMANS; LIGHT; MELATONIN; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE; SCHIZOPHRENIA; SCHIZOPHRENIC PSYCHOLOGY; SLEEP DISORDERS; SUPRACHIASMATIC NUCLEUS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 72449132313     PISSN: 03069877     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mehy.2009.08.026     Document Type: Letter

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