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Case report| Volume 87, ISSUE 5, P586-588, November 1989

Pathologic sleepiness induced by caffeine

  • Quentin R. Regestein
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    Requests for reprints should be addressed to Quentin R. Regestein, M.D., Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts 02115.
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    From the Division of Psychiatry, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
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DOI:https://doi.org/10.1016/S0002-9343(89)80619-9
Pathologic sleepiness induced by caffeine
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      Publication history

      Accepted: July 10, 1989
      Received: March 17, 1989

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      DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/S0002-9343(89)80619-9

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      © 1989 Reed Publishing USA. Published by Elsevier Inc.

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