Alcohol, sleepwalking and violence: lack of reliable scientific evidence.
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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 Institute of Medical Research, Department of Respiratory and Sleep Medicine, University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia 5 Centre for Advanced Research in Sleep Medicine, Hopital du Sacre-Coeur, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
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عنوان ژورنال:
- Brain : a journal of neurology
دوره 136 Pt 2 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2013