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The purposes of this study were to compare physiological sleep profiles of sober chronic alcoholics with those of age-matched normal control subjects, and to examine the effects of two days of drinking on the sleep of the alcoholic patients.1
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Lester, B.K., Rundell, O.H., Cowden, L.C., Williams, H.L. (1975). Alcohol and Sleep in the Chronic Alcoholic. In: Burch, N., Altshuler, H.L. (eds) Behavior and Brain Electrical Activity. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-4434-6_3
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