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Alan B. Douglass
Researcher at University of Ottawa
Publications - 50
Citations - 1620
Alan B. Douglass is an academic researcher from University of Ottawa. The author has contributed to research in topics: Polysomnography & Sleep in non-human animals. The author has an hindex of 18, co-authored 47 publications receiving 1507 citations. Previous affiliations of Alan B. Douglass include Veterans Health Administration & Royal Ottawa Mental Health Centre.
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The Sleep Disorders Questionnaire I: Creation and Multivariate Structure of SDQ
Alan B. Douglass,Robert A. Bornstein,German Nino-Murcia,Sharon Keenan,Laughton E. Miles,Vincent P. Zarcone,Christian Guilleminault,W C Dement +7 more
TL;DR: The development of the Sleep Disorders Questionnaire (SDQ) from the Sleep Questionnaire and Assessment of Wakefulness of Stanford University is described in detail and the extraction of the best question items from the SQAW and their subsequent rewording in the SDQ are described.
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Change in periodic limb movement index during treatment of obstructive sleep apnea with continuous positive airway pressure.
TL;DR: Severity of OSA may determine the effect of CPAP on PLMs, which suggests that PLMs may have more than 1 etiology and may be categorized as spontaneous (as in PLMD) and induced (when secondary to respiratory effort-related arousals).
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Meta-analyses of mood stabilizers, antidepressants and antipsychotics in the treatment of borderline personality disorder: effectiveness for depression and anger symptoms.
TL;DR: Mood stabilizers, with the exception of divalproic acid, were found to have a large pooled effect size and Antipsychotics had a moderate effect on anger; however aripiprazole had a much larger effect-size than other antipsychotics.
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Practice parameters for the use of polysomnography in the evaluation of insomnia
M. Thorpy,A. Chesson,G. Kader,Richard P. Millman,S. Potolicchio,Martin Reite,G. Rosen,V. Wooten,A. Chediak,Alan B. Douglass,Richard Ferber +10 more
TL;DR: These clinical guidelines, which have been reviewed and approved by the Board of Directors of the American Sleep Disorders Association, provide recommendations for the practice of sleep medicine in North America for the use of polysomnography in the evaluation of insomnia.
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Short-term retest reliability of the Halstead-Reitan Battery in a normal sample.
TL;DR: It was concluded that some of the Halstead-Reitan measures may not be useful in studying short-term changes in performance, but most of the measures did not demonstrate significant changes over the 3-week interval and may be helpful in examining such short- term changes inperformance.