Drug Treatment of Sleep Disorders
Following reviews on sleep physiology, regulation, pharmacology, and the neuronal networks regulating sleep and awakening, as well as a classification of sleep disorders, this book presents a number of major breakthroughs in the treatment of those disorders. These include recently approved drugs for...
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| Language: | English |
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Cham :
Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer,
2015.
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| Edition: | 1st ed. 2015. |
| Series: | Milestones in Drug Therapy,
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| Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-11514-6 |
Table of Contents:
- An overview of sleep physiology and sleep regulation
- Neuronal networks regulating sleep and arousal: effect of drugs
- Classification of sleep disorders
- Development of new therapeutical agents for treatment of insomnia and other sleep disorders
- Low dose doxepin for insomnia
- Lorediplon: a new GABAa modulator drug for treatment of insomnia
- Zolpidem sublingual formulations
- Eszopiclone: review and clinical applications in chronic and co-morbid insomnia
- Orexin/hypocretin antagonists in insomnia: from bench to clinic
- Modafinil and armodafinil
- Sodium oxybate (Xyrem®): a new and effective treatment for narcolepsy with cataplexy
- Cell therapy to treat narcolepsy
- Tasimelteon
- The past, present and future of drug development and treatment in sleep disorders.