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Sleep, insomnia and mental health

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 November 2008

Kevin Morgan*
Affiliation:
University of Nottingham Medical School, UK
*
Kevin Morgan, Department of Health Care of the Elderly, University of Nottingham, Nottingham NG7 2UH, UK.

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Psychiatry of old age
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1992

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