Sleep state instabilities in major depressive disorder: Detection and quantification with electrocardiogram-based

Albert C Yang1, Cheng-Hung Yang1, Chen-Jee Hong1

  • 1Department of Psychiatry, Chu-Tung Veterans Hospital, Hsin-Chu County, TaiwanDivision of Psychiatry, School of Medicine, National Yang-Ming University, Taipei, TaiwanInstitute of Clinical Medicine, National Yang-Ming University, Taipei, TaiwanDepartment of Psychiatry, Taipei Veterans General Hospital, Taipei, TaiwanDivision of Interdisciplinary Medicine and Biotechnology and Margret and H. A. Rey Institute for Nonlinear Dynamics in Medicine, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center/Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA and Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering at Harvard University, Boston, MADivision of Pulmonary, Critical Care and Sleep, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center/Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA.

Psychophysiology
|July 14, 2010
PubMed
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