Structural brain modifications in primary insomnia: Myth or reality?

Sleep

Volumn 36, Issue 7, 2013, Pages 965-966

  Dang Vu, Thien Thanh ^a  

^a and Applied Physiology   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GLUCOSE;

ANTERIOR CINGULATE; BASAL GANGLION; BRAIN PERFUSION; BRAIN REGION; BRAIN STEM; EDITORIAL; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; GLUCOSE BRAIN LEVEL; GLUCOSE METABOLISM; GRAY MATTER; HUMAN; HYPOTHALAMUS; INSOMNIA; LIMBIC CORTEX; NEUROIMAGING; NONREM SLEEP; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; ORBITAL CORTEX; POLYSOMNOGRAPHY; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSORIMOTOR CORTEX; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; SLEEP STAGE; SUPERIOR TEMPORAL GYRUS; THALAMUS; VOXEL BASED MORPHOMETRY; WHITE MATTER;

EID: 84879637300     PISSN: 01618105     EISSN: 15509109     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5665/sleep.2780     Document Type: Editorial

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