Non-Pharmacological alternatives for the treatment of insomnia-Instrumental EEG Conditioning, a new alternative?

Melatonin, Sleep and Insomnia

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 69-100

  Hoedlmoser, Kerstin ^a   Dang Vu, Thien Thanh ^b,c   Desseilles, Martin ^b,c   Schabus, Manuel ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SALZBURG   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LIÈGE   (Belgium)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LIÈGE   (Belgium)

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