Alcohol-mediated sleep paralysis: The earliest known description

Sleep Medicine

Volumn 14, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 298-

  Golzari, Samad E J ^a   Ghabili, Kamyar ^a  

^a TABRIZ UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL;

ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION; AROUSAL; ASPHYXIA; BODY POSITION; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CLINICAL FEATURE; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DYSPNEA; EPILEPSY; FATIGUE; FEBRILE CONVULSION; HISTORY OF MEDICINE; INVOLUNTARY MOVEMENT; LETTER; MANIA; MENTAL STRESS; NARCOLEPSY; NIGHTMARE; PARASOMNIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REM SLEEP; RISK FACTOR; SLEEP; SLEEP DEPRIVATION; SLEEP DISORDER; SLEEP PATTERN; SLEEP WAKING CYCLE; TRADITIONAL MEDICINE;

ALCOHOL DRINKING; HISTORY, 16TH CENTURY; HISTORY, ANCIENT; HUMANS; MEDICINE, TRADITIONAL; PERSIA; SLEEP PARALYSIS;

EID: 84874259303     PISSN: 13899457     EISSN: 18785506     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.sleep.2012.09.014     Document Type: Letter

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