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Rapid Eye Movement (REM) sleep: cholinergic mechanisms1

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 July 2009

J. Christian Gillin  and
Natraj Sitaram
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Psychological Medicine , Volume 14 , Issue 3 , August 1984 , pp. 501 - 506
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