Neuroimaging Insights into Insomnia

Current Neurology and Neuroscience Reports

Volumn 15, Issue 3, 2015, Pages

  Spiegelhalder, Kai ^a,b   Regen, Wolfram ^a   Baglioni, Chiara ^a   Nissen, Christoph ^a   Riemann, Dieter ^a   Kyle, Simon D ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Insomnia; Neurobiology; Neuroimaging; Neurology; Neuroscience; Psychiatry

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID;

ABSENTEEISM; AGE DISTRIBUTION; ANTERIOR CINGULATE; BRAIN FUNCTION; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CARDIOVASCULAR MORTALITY; CHEMICAL NUROIMAGING; COGNITIVE THERAPY; COST; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FRONTAL CORTEX; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; FUNCTIONAL NEUROIMAGING; HIGH RISK PATIENT; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMAN; INSOMNIA; MORBIDITY; NEUROIMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PINEAL BODY; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PREVALENCE; QUALITY OF LIFE; REVIEW; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; STRUCTURAL NEUROIMAGING; TASK PERFORMANCE; VOXEL BASED MORPHOMETRY; WORK DISABILITY; PATHOLOGY; PROCEDURES;

HUMANS; NEUROIMAGING; SLEEP INITIATION AND MAINTENANCE DISORDERS;

EID: 84922982920     PISSN: 15284042     EISSN: 15346293     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11910-015-0527-3     Document Type: Review

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