Author | Mendelson, Wallace B. author |
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Title | The Use and Misuse of Sleeping Pills [electronic resource] : A Clinical Guide / by Wallace B. Mendelson |
Imprint | Boston, MA : Springer US : Imprint: Springer, 1980 |
Connect to | http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4684-3647-1 |
Descript | XII, 220 p. online resource |
1 Basic Concepts about Sleep and Insomnia -- History -- The Sleep Stages -- Influences on the Appearance of Sleep Stages -- Physiologic Regulation of Sleep -- Hypnotics and Sleep Regulation -- Sleep Deprivation -- The Need for Sleep -- Insomnia -- Summary and Conclusions -- 2 The Prevalence of Sleep Disturbance and Hypnotic Use -- Surveys of Reported Sleep Disturbance -- Types of Sleep Complaints -- Surveys of Hypnotic Use -- Patient-Physician Interaction -- Prescriptions for Outpatients -- Prescribing Hypnotics in Hospital Practice -- Summary and Conclusions -- 3 Pharmacology of Prescription Hypnotics -- Pharmacologic Considerations -- Barbiturates -- Benzodiazepines -- Nonbarbiturate, Nonbenzodiazepine Hypnotics -- Summary and Conclusions -- 4 The Efficacy of Hypnotics -- Methodologic Considerations -- Efficacy Studies in Specific Disorders -- Reference Section: Efficacy Studies in Normal Volunteers and โInsomniacsโ -- Nonbarbiturate, Nonbenzodiazepine Hypnotics -- Summary and Conclusions -- 5 Suicide and Hypnotics -- Incidence -- Traits of the Victim -- Clinical Toxicity -- Treatment -- Prevention -- Summary and Conclusions -- 6 Residual Daytime Effects of Hypnotics -- Electrophysiologic Residual Effects -- Psychomotor Measures of Residual Effects -- Subjective Evaluation of Daytime Performance -- Hypnotics and Driving -- Summary and Conclusions -- 7 Interactions with Ethanol -- General Considerations -- Barbiturates -- Benzodiazepines -- Nonbarbiturate, Nonbenzodiazepine Hypnotics -- Summary and Conclusions -- 8 Hypnotic Dependence -- Classical Drug Abuse -- Dependence in Medical Practice -- Summary and Conclusions -- 9 Hypnotics and the Elderly -- Pharmacology in the Elderly -- Efficacy Studies -- Toxicity -- Summary and Conclusions -- 10 Other Pharmacologic Approaches -- Over-the-Counter Hypnotics -- l-Tryptophan -- Ethanol -- Summary and Conclusions -- 11 Nonpharmacologic Treatment of Insomnia -- Counseling and Psychotherapy -- Behavioral Therapies -- Summary and Conclusions -- 12 Conclusion: Implications for Medical Practice -- Summary -- Approach to the Insomniac Patient -- References