Quantitative electroencephalography during rapid eye movement (REM) and non-REM sleep in combat-exposed veterans with and without post-traumatic stress disorder

Journal of Sleep Research

Volumn 22, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 76-82

  Cohen, Daniel J ^a   Begley, Amy ^a   Alman, Jennie J ^b   Cashmere, David J ^a   Pietrone, Regina N ^a   Seres, Robert J ^a   Germain, Anne ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b WASHINGTON AND JEFFERSON COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Non REM sleep; Post traumatic stress disorder; Quantitative EEG; Rapid eye movement sleep; Sleep; Spectral analysis

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BETA RHYTHM; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; EFFECT SIZE; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FEMALE; HEAD INJURY; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; LOCOMOTION; MALE; MEDICAL HISTORY; NONREM SLEEP; PANIC; PITTSBURGH SLEEP QUALITY INDEX; POLYSOMNOGRAPHY; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; REM SLEEP; SELF REPORT; SLEEP SPINDLE; UNCONSCIOUSNESS; VETERAN; WAR;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POLYSOMNOGRAPHY; PSYCHIATRIC STATUS RATING SCALES; SLEEP STAGES; SLEEP, REM; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC; UNITED STATES; VETERANS; WAR; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84872600292     PISSN: 09621105     EISSN: 13652869     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2869.2012.01040.x     Document Type: Article

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