Sleep Medicine Reviews
Volume 6, Issue 5 , Pages 361-377 , October 2002

Therapeutic use of sleep deprivation in depression

  • Henner Giedke

      Affiliations

    • Correspondence to be addressed to: Henner Giedke, M.D. Tel.: +49 (0)7071-2982311; Fax: +49(0)7071-294141; E-mail: henner.giedke@med.uni-tuebingen.de
    • ,
  • Frank Schwärzler

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