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January 1, 2021
A number of medications are used for the treatment of insomnia. This chapter focuses on reviewing the evidence indicating whether these medications are helpful for patients with insomnia. It employs a traditional framework for carrying out such a review: e ...
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January 1, 2021
Effective treatment of anxiety and trauma-related disorders includes assessing and managing sleep disturbances. Clinical experience suggests that education and encouragement about behavioral factors that disturb sleep can be helpful as an adjunct to treatm ...
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January 1, 2021
Serotonin (5-hydroxytryptamine [5-HT]) neurons clustered in the raphe nuclei innervate nearly all brain regions to act on a multiplicity of receptors. These neurons are involved in the regulation of a large number of higher functions including cognition, m ...
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January 1, 2011
Introduction Insomnia patients, by definition, have disturbed or non-restorative sleep, and sleep less on average than the general population in terms of both self-reported and objective polysomnographic measures. As a result, it would be expected that ins ...
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January 1, 2009
Introduction The subject of the pharmacological treatment of insomnia is of particular relevance to older adults as the frequency and duration of the pharmacological treatment of insomnia increases with age. This article is intended to provide a general in ...
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January 1, 2008
Whereas most people have trouble sleeping from time to time, some have persistent difficulty initiating or maintaining sleep and/or do not wake feeling refreshed. Individuals who experience this difficulty and suffer a concomitant decline in their social a ...
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