Sex differences in objective measures of sleep in post-traumatic stress disorder and healthy control subjects

Journal of Sleep Research

Volumn 22, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 679-687

  Richards, Anne ^a,b   Metzler, Thomas J ^b   Ruoff, Leslie M ^b   Inslicht, Sabra S ^a,b   Rao, Madhu ^a,b   Talbot, Lisa S ^b   Neylan, Thomas C ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b SAN FRANCISCO VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Polysomnography; Post traumatic stress disorder; Quantitative electroencephalography; Rapid eye movement sleep; Sex differences; Slow wave sleep

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ALPHA RHYTHM; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMORBIDITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DELTA RHYTHM; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HOMEOSTASIS; HUMAN; MAJOR DEPRESSION; MALE; POLYSOMNOGRAPHY; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; REM SLEEP; SEX DIFFERENCE; SLEEP; SLEEP QUALITY; SLEEP TIME; SLOW WAVE SLEEP; THETA RHYTHM;

POLYSOMNOGRAPHY; POST-TRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; QUANTITATIVE ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; RAPID EYE MOVEMENT SLEEP; SEX DIFFERENCES; SLOW WAVE SLEEP;

ADULT; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DEMOGRAPHY; DEPRESSIVE DISORDER, MAJOR; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; SLEEP; SLEEP, REM; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84887614521     PISSN: 09621105     EISSN: 13652869     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/jsr.12064     Document Type: Article

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