Sleepwalking, night terrors, and consciousness.
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Sleepwalking, night terrors, and consciousness.
OBJECTIVE To determine some personality and psychoneurotic characteristics of adults who have the sleepwalking-night terrors syndrome. DESIGN Prospective assessment of two groups of consecutive patients with a firm diagnosis of either of two specific sleep disorders as established clinically and by polysomnography. SETTING Outpatient sleep disorders clinic and sleep laboratory in a tertiary...
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عنوان ژورنال: BMJ
سال: 1990
ISSN: 0959-8138,1468-5833
DOI: 10.1136/bmj.300.6721.360