Primary insomnia: A disorder of sleep, or primarily one of wakefulness?

Sleep Medicine Reviews

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 3-7

  Horne, Jim ^a  

^a LOUGHBOROUGH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AROUSAL; AUTONOMIC NERVOUS SYSTEM FUNCTION; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; DAYTIME SOMNOLENCE; DEPRESSION; EDITORIAL; FATIGUE; HUMAN; INSOMNIA; MENTAL STRESS; METABOLIC RATE; NIGHT SLEEP; PERSONALITY; SLEEP; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; SOMNOLENCE; SYMPATHETIC TONE; WAKEFULNESS;

AROUSAL; DISORDERS OF EXCESSIVE SOMNOLENCE; FATIGUE; HUMANS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SLEEP INITIATION AND MAINTENANCE DISORDERS; WAKEFULNESS;

EID: 72649086946     PISSN: 10870792     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.smrv.2009.09.004     Document Type: Editorial

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