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Comment on: Sleep patterns and quality depend not only on gender and the time of year, but also on a variety of other influencing factors. [PDF]
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, 2021 Sleep is an active physiological process which harmonizes the brain function. A sedative is a drug which reduces activity and alertness by producing a calming effect on the subject, whereas a hypnotic induces drowsiness and promotes sleep onset and maintenance.
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Anxiolytics, sedatives and hypnotics
Anaesthesia & Intensive Care Medicine, 2007Anxiolytics and sedatives are used in current anaesthetic practice for anxiolysis before surgery and as adjuvants during anaesthesia. The safety profile of these agents depends on their pharmacokinetic and pharmacodynamic profiles, patient comorbidity and the experience of the clinician.
Anthony Absalom, Caroline Meerts
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Sedative-hypnotics and human performance [PDF]
Psychopharmacology, 1982 In 52 studies, performance data were obtained the next day following bedtime ingestion of a sedative-hypnotic or a placebo. Only eight of these studies used insomniac patients. Most studies used young adult males. Benzodiazepine hypnotics were most frequently administered and psychomotor performance was most often measured.
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The Clinical Choice of Sedative-Hypnotics
Annals of Internal Medicine, 1972Abstract The clinician is faced with a bewildering array of available sedatives, hypnotics, and tranquilizers, as well as continuous pressure from patients, the popular media, and the pharmaceutica...
David J. Greenblatt, Richard I. Shader
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Journal of Psychosocial Nursing and Mental Health Services, 1965
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2020
Anxiety and insomnia are the most commonly prevalent problems worldwide. These conditions affect the psychiatric, psychosocial, and medical wellbeing. Pharmacological agents by exerting calming and depressive effect on the central nervous system reduce anxiety and also induce the onset and maintenance of sleep.
Arup Kumar Misra, Pankaj Sharma
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Anxiety and insomnia are the most commonly prevalent problems worldwide. These conditions affect the psychiatric, psychosocial, and medical wellbeing. Pharmacological agents by exerting calming and depressive effect on the central nervous system reduce anxiety and also induce the onset and maintenance of sleep.
Arup Kumar Misra, Pankaj Sharma
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Anxiolytics and sedative/hypnotics dependence
British Journal of Addiction, 1991AbstractAnxiolytics and sedative/hypnotics are commonly used drugs. Benzodiazepines have largely replaced barbiturate and non‐barbiturate anxiolytics and sedative/hypnotics as they are as effective and safer. Experiments in laboratory animals have shown that chronic administration of benzodiazepines tested to date can induce physical dependence.
Usoa E. Busto, Edward M. Sellers
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2014
The sedative hypnotic drugs represent a variety of chemical agents that depress central nervous system activity. They have many clinical uses in medicine including treatment of anxiety and insomnia, epilepsy, as muscle relaxants, and for induction of anesthesia. Some members of the class also possess significant abuse potential and a hazard of overdose
Mark A. Oldham, Domenic A. Ciraulo
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The sedative hypnotic drugs represent a variety of chemical agents that depress central nervous system activity. They have many clinical uses in medicine including treatment of anxiety and insomnia, epilepsy, as muscle relaxants, and for induction of anesthesia. Some members of the class also possess significant abuse potential and a hazard of overdose
Mark A. Oldham, Domenic A. Ciraulo
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