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Insomnia in internal medicine
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Department of Pharmacology and Therapeutics Clinics Hospital, Montevideo, Uruguay
Online publication date: 2004-01-15
Publication date: 2004-01-15
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Jaime M. Monti
Professor, Department of Pharmacology and Therapeutics
Clinics Hospital
Montevideo 11300, Uruguay
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Eur J Gen Med 2004;1(1):2-3
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ABSTRACT
Sleep is a distinctive and essential component of human behavior. The Rechtschaffen and Kales (1) system for scoring sleep stages distinguishes a waking state, non-rapid-eye movement (NREM) sleep and rapid-eye movement (REM) sleep. During NREM sleep four stages are conventionally distinguished.