Sleep Medicine
Volume 9, Issue 6 , Pages 615-636 , August 2008

Ontogeny of EEG-sleep from neonatal through infancy periods

  • Mark S. Scher

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Received 11 April 2007 ,Revised 10 August 2007 ,Accepted 14 August 2007.

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