Is serotonin responsible for the relationship between sleep debt and suicide? A comment on Kohyama's hypothesis

Medical Hypotheses

Volumn 75, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 675-

  Pires, Gabriel Natan ^a   Andersen, Monica Levy ^a   Kahan, Vanessa ^a   Araujo, Paula ^a   Galduróz, José Carlos ^a   Tufik, Sergio ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SEROTONIN;

DEPRESSION; LETTER; NEUROTRANSMISSION; REM SLEEP; SEROTONINERGIC SYSTEM; SUICIDE;

DEPRESSION; HUMANS; JAPAN; SEROTONIN; SLEEP DEPRIVATION; SUICIDE, ATTEMPTED;

EID: 77958466104     PISSN: 03069877     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mehy.2010.07.015     Document Type: Letter

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