Psychomotor performance of medical students: Effect of 24 hours of sleep deprivation

Indian Journal of Psychological Medicine

Volumn 34, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 129-132

  Dixit, Abhinav ^a   Goyal, Abhishek ^a   Thawani, Rajat ^a   Vaney, Neelam ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (India)

Author keywords

Digit symbol substitution test; Digit vigilance test; Letter cancellation task; Sleep deprivation

Indexed keywords

EID: 84867364397     PISSN: 02537176     EISSN: 09751564     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4103/0253-7176.101777     Document Type: Article

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