Sleep Medicine
Volume 11, Issue 8 , Pages 791-798 , September 2010

Effects of NREM sleep instability on cognitive processing

  • Debora Aricò

      Affiliations

    • Department of Neurology I.C., Oasi Institute for Research on Mental Retardation and Brain Aging (IRCCS), Troina, Italy
    • The first two authors contributed equally to performing this study.
    • ,
  • Valeria Drago

      Affiliations

    • Department of Neurology I.C., Oasi Institute for Research on Mental Retardation and Brain Aging (IRCCS), Troina, Italy
    • University of Florida, Department of Neurology, Gainesville, FL, USA
    • The first two authors contributed equally to performing this study.
    • ,
  • Paul S. Foster

      Affiliations

    • University of Florida, Department of Neurology, Gainesville, FL, USA
    • Middle Tennessee State University, Department of Psychology, Murfreesboro, TN, USA
    • ,
  • Kenneth M. Heilman

      Affiliations

    • University of Florida, Department of Neurology, Gainesville, FL, USA
    • ,
  • John Williamson

      Affiliations

    • University of Florida, Department of Neurology, Gainesville, FL, USA
    • ,
  • Raffaele Ferri

      Affiliations

    • Department of Neurology I.C., Oasi Institute for Research on Mental Retardation and Brain Aging (IRCCS), Troina, Italy
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Address: Department of Neurology I.C., Oasi Institute, Via C. Ruggero 73, 94018 Troina, Italy. Tel.: +39 0935 936111; fax: +39 0935 936694.

Received 4 October 2009 ,Revised 13 February 2010 ,Accepted 23 February 2010.

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doi: 10.1016/j.sleep.2010.02.009

Sleep Medicine
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