Journal of Affective Disorders
Volume 81, Issue 1 , Pages 17-22 , July 2004

Autobiographical memory predicts cognitive but not somatic change in sleep apnea patients vulnerable for affective disorder

  • Herbert F Mackinger

      Affiliations

    • Institute of Psychology, University of Salzburg, 5020 Salzburg, Austria
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Tel.: 662-8044-5114; fax: 662-8044-5126.
    • ,
  • Jennifer J Svaldi

      Affiliations

    • Psychosomatic Clinic Roseneck, 83209 Prien, Germany

Received 2 January 2003 ,Revised 26 June 2003 ,Accepted 26 June 2003.

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☆ This article is based in part on Jennifer J. Svaldi’s masters thesis, submitted to the University of Salzburg. Partial data of this article were also used in addition to other data in an article published in the Scandinavian Journal of Psychology (2003).

PII: S0165-0327(03)00170-8

doi: 10.1016/S0165-0327(03)00170-8

Journal of Affective Disorders
Volume 81, Issue 1 , Pages 17-22 , July 2004

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