Sleep Medicine
Volume 9, Issue 6 , Pages 697-700 , August 2008

REM sleep behavior disorder and excessive startle reaction to visual stimuli in a patient with pontine lesions

Received 21 May 2007 ,Accepted 9 October 2007.

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PII: S1389-9457(07)00359-0

doi: 10.1016/j.sleep.2007.10.009

Sleep Medicine
Volume 9, Issue 6 , Pages 697-700 , August 2008

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