Sleep Medicine
Volume 10, Issue 1 , Pages 9-12 , January 2009

A lesson from anatomy: Focal brain lesions causing REM sleep behavior disorder

Received 5 February 2008 ,Accepted 10 March 2008.

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doi: 10.1016/j.sleep.2008.03.005

Sleep Medicine
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