Elevated awaking thresholds during sleep: characteristics of chronic war-related posttraumatic stress disorder patients.
Biological Psychiatry November 15, 1998 Peretz Lavie, N Katz, Giora Pillar et al.
Sleep disturbances are one of the hallmarks of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD); however, sleep laboratory studies have provided inconsistent evidence of the existence of objective sleep disturbances in PTSD patients. Reports that awaking thresholds from sleep in war-related PTSD patients were significantly elevated compared to normals are discordant with complaints of insomnia. The present...