No scientific evidence that alcohol causes sleepwalking
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Alcohol, sleepwalking and violence: lack of reliable scientific evidence.
1 Sleep Medicine Services, Department of Medicine, Lankenau Medical Center and Lankenau Institute for Medical Research, Wynnewood, PA, USA 2 Minnesota Regional Sleep Disorders Center, Department of Neurology, Minneapolis, MN, USA 3 Academic Department of Sleep and Ventilation, Birmingham Hearltands Hospital, Birmingham, UK 4 NHMRC Centre for Integrated Research and Understanding Sleep, Woolcock...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Sleep Research
سال: 2008
ISSN: 0962-1105,1365-2869
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2869.2008.00694.x