Nightmare frequency in a representative German sample

International Journal of Dream Research

Volumn 6, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 49-52

  Schredl, Michael ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Age effects; Dream recall; Gender differences; Nightmares; Urbanization

Indexed keywords

EID: 84886390393     PISSN: None     EISSN: 18667953     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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