Sleep Medicine Reviews
Volume 6, Issue 2 , Pages 83-96 , May 2002

Daytime sleepiness and its evaluation

  • Raymond Cluydts

      Affiliations

    • Department of Cognitive and Physiological Psychology, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Brussels, Belgium, Universitair Psychiatrisch Centrum St. Jozef, Kortenberg, Belgium
    • ,
  • Elke De Valck

      Affiliations

    • Department of Cognitive and Physiological Psychology, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Brussels, Belgium, Universitair Psychiatrisch Centrum St. Jozef, Kortenberg, Belgium
    • ,
  • Edwin Verstraeten

      Affiliations

    • Department of Cognitive and Physiological Psychology, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Brussels, Belgium, Universitair Psychiatrisch Centrum St. Jozef, Kortenberg, Belgium
    • ,
  • Paul Theys

      Affiliations

    • Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Brussels, Belgium, Sleep Disorders Centre, Universitair Psychiatrisch Centrum St. Jozef, Kortenberg, Belgium

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Sleep Medicine Reviews
Volume 6, Issue 2 , Pages 83-96 , May 2002

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