Human sleep: An overview

Sleep and Quality of Life in Clinical Medicine

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 29-36

  Monti, Jaime M ^a   Monti, Daniel ^b  

^a HOSPITAL DE CLÍNICAS   (Uruguay)

^b Mercy Behavioral Health   (United States)

Author keywords

Human sleep; newborn infants; regulation of sleep; short and long sleepers; young adults

Indexed keywords

EID: 77954113196     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-60327-343-5_4     Document Type: Chapter

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