Prevalence of isolated sleep paralysis in black subjects.
- 1 May 1984
- journal article
- Vol. 76 (5) , 501-8
Abstract
Sleep paralysis is a state of consciousness experienced while waking from sleep or falling asleep. It is characterized by an experience of being unable to move for several seconds or minutes. This study represents the first survey to measure the incidence of this disorder in a black population of healthy subjects and psychiatric patients.This publication has 31 references indexed in Scilit:
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