Sleep Medicine Reviews
Volume 4, Issue 4 , Pages 387-402 , August 2000

Exercise and sleep

  • Helen S. Driver

      Affiliations

    • Department of Psychiatry, University of Toronto, University Health Network, Toronto Western Hospital Applied and Interventional Research Division, Canada
    • ,
  • Sheila R. Taylor

      Affiliations

    • Department of Physiology, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa

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☆ Correspondence to be addressed to: Helen Driver, Department of Psychiatry, Toronto Western Hospital (ECW3D-032), 399 Bathurst Street, Toronto, Ontario M5T 2S8, Canada. Tel: +1 416 603 5765; Fax: +1 416 603 5292; E-mail: hdriver@uhnres.utoronto.ca

PII: S1087-0792(00)90110-2

doi: 10.1053/smrv.2000.0110

Sleep Medicine Reviews
Volume 4, Issue 4 , Pages 387-402 , August 2000

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