Sleep Medicine Reviews
Volume 8, Issue 2 , Pages 109-118 , April 2004

Sleep in eating disorders

  • Christoph J Lauer

      Affiliations

    • Sleep Disorders Center, Clinic Angermuehle, Angermuehle 8a/b, 94469 Deggendorf, Germany
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Tel.: +49-991-370-55-79; fax: +49-991-370-55-97
    • ,
  • Jürgen-Christian Krieg

      Affiliations

    • Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Philipps-University, Marburg, Germany

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Sleep Medicine Reviews
Volume 8, Issue 2 , Pages 109-118 , April 2004

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