Psychiatry Research
Volume 105, Issue 1 , Pages 87-95 , 15 December 2001

Sleep-EEG in borderline patients without concomitant major depression: a comparison with major depressives and normal control subjects

  • José Manuel De la Fuente

      Affiliations

    • Department of Psychiatry, Erasme Hospital, Free University of Brussels, 808 route de Lennik, B-1070 Brussels, Belgium
    • Faculty of Medicine, Oviedo University, Julian Claverı́a 6, 33006 Oviedo, Spain
    • Hôpital Psychiatrique de Lannemezan, Route de Toulouse, F-65300 Lannemezan, France
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Hôpital Psychiatrique de Lannemezan, Route de Toulouse, F-65300 Lannemezan, France. Tel.: +33-5-6299-5525; fax: +33-5-6299-5305
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  • Julio Bobes

      Affiliations

    • Faculty of Medicine, Oviedo University, Julian Claverı́a 6, 33006 Oviedo, Spain
    • ,
  • Coro Vizuete

      Affiliations

    • Hôpital Psychiatrique de Lannemezan, Route de Toulouse, F-65300 Lannemezan, France
    • ,
  • Julien Mendlewicz

      Affiliations

    • Department of Psychiatry, Erasme Hospital, Free University of Brussels, 808 route de Lennik, B-1070 Brussels, Belgium

Received 17 May 2000 ,Revised 5 October 2000 ,Accepted 30 November 2000.

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Psychiatry Research
Volume 105, Issue 1 , Pages 87-95 , 15 December 2001

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