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Brief report| Volume 40, ISSUE 5, P422-425, September 01, 1996

A case of REM sleep behavior disorder with autopsy-confirmed alzheimer's disease: postmortem brain stem histochemical analyses

  • Carlos H. Schenck
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    Address reprint requests to Carlos H. Schenck, MD, Minnesota Regional Sleep Disorders Center, Hennepin County Medical Center, 701 Park Ave. South, Minneapolis, MN 55415.
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    Minnesota Regional Sleep Disorders Center, Hennepin County Medical Center and University of Minnesota Medical School, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA

    Department of Psychiatry, Hennepin County Medical Center and University of Minnesota Medical School, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
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  • Edgar Garcia-Rill
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    Departments of Anatomy and Psychiatry, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, Little Rock, Arkansas, USA
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  • Robert D. Skinner
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    Departments of Anatomy and Psychiatry, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, Little Rock, Arkansas, USA
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  • Michael L. Anderson
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    Department of Pathology, University of Minnesota Medical School, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
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  • Mark W. Mahowald
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    Minnesota Regional Sleep Disorders Center, Hennepin County Medical Center and University of Minnesota Medical School, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA

    Department of Neurology, Hennepin County Medical Center and University of Minnesota Medical School, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
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DOI:https://doi.org/10.1016/0006-3223(96)00070-4
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      Publication history

      Received in revised form: January 18, 1996
      Received: October 16, 1995

      Footnotes

      This work was supported by grants from Hennepin Faculty Associates (CHS), and PHS grant N5 20246 (EGR).

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      DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/0006-3223(96)00070-4

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      © 1996 J. Benjamin. Published by Elsevier Inc.

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