Psychiatry Research
Volume 176, Issue 1 , Pages 34-39 , 30 March 2010

Sleep debt and depression in female college students

  • Quentin Regestein

      Affiliations

    • Department of Psychiatry, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA, United States
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  • Viji Natarajan

      Affiliations

    • Department of Psychiatry, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA, United States
    • ,
  • Milena Pavlova

      Affiliations

    • Department of Neurology, Faulkner/Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA, United States
    • ,
  • Susan Kawasaki

      Affiliations

    • Department of Neurology, Faulkner/Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA, United States
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. BWH Psychiatry, 221 Longwood Avenue, Room M-56, Boston, MA 02115, United States. Tel.: +1 617 9837580; fax: +1 617 983 7238.
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  • Ray Gleason

      Affiliations

    • Department of Neurology, Faulkner/Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA, United States
    • ,
  • Elissa Koff

      Affiliations

    • Wellesley College, Wellesley, MA, United States

Received 11 September 2007 ,Revised 3 November 2008 ,Accepted 11 November 2008.

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doi: 10.1016/j.psychres.2008.11.006

Psychiatry Research
Volume 176, Issue 1 , Pages 34-39 , 30 March 2010

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