Sleep Medicine
Volume 9, Issue 5 , Pages 481-487 , July 2008

Long-lasting sleep patterns of adult patients with minor traumatic brain injury (mTBI) and non-mTBI subjects

  • Shaul Schreiber

      Affiliations

    • Department of Psychiatry, Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center and Tel Aviv University Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel Aviv 64239, Israel
    • The Neuropsychological Unit for Treatment and Rehabilitation, Tel Aviv & Jerusalem, Israel
    • At the time of the study, SS and OTD were with the Neuropsychological Unit and NT was with the Sleep Laboratory, Rambam Medical Center and Technion - IIT, Haifa, Israel.
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Address: Department of Psychiatry, Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center and Tel Aviv University Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel Aviv 64239, Israel. Fax: +972 3 697 4586.
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  • Gabriel Barkai

      Affiliations

    • Department of Psychiatry, Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center and Tel Aviv University Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel Aviv 64239, Israel
    • The Neuropsychological Unit for Treatment and Rehabilitation, Tel Aviv & Jerusalem, Israel
    • ,
  • Tamar Gur-Hartman

      Affiliations

    • Department of Anatomy and Anthropology, Tel Aviv University Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel Aviv, Israel
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  • Einat Peles

      Affiliations

    • Dr. Miriam & Sheldon G. Adelson Clinic for Drug Abuse, Treatment & Research, Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center, Israel
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  • Naveh Tov

      Affiliations

    • Department of Internal Medicine C, Bnai-Zion Medical Center, Haifa, Israel
    • At the time of the study, SS and OTD were with the Neuropsychological Unit and NT was with the Sleep Laboratory, Rambam Medical Center and Technion - IIT, Haifa, Israel.
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  • Ornah T. Dolberg

      Affiliations

    • Department of Psychiatry, Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center and Tel Aviv University Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel Aviv 64239, Israel
    • The Neuropsychological Unit for Treatment and Rehabilitation, Tel Aviv & Jerusalem, Israel
    • At the time of the study, SS and OTD were with the Neuropsychological Unit and NT was with the Sleep Laboratory, Rambam Medical Center and Technion - IIT, Haifa, Israel.
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  • Chaim G. Pick

      Affiliations

    • Department of Anatomy and Anthropology, Tel Aviv University Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel Aviv, Israel

Received 6 October 2006 ,Revised 16 April 2007 ,Accepted 23 April 2007.

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PII: S1389-9457(07)00179-7

doi: 10.1016/j.sleep.2007.04.014

Sleep Medicine
Volume 9, Issue 5 , Pages 481-487 , July 2008

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