Polysomnography (PSG) studies have demonstrated altered sleep architecture in abstinent heavy MDMA users. Smoked marijuana and oral 螖-9-tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) reduce REM sleep. Moreover, acute administration of cannabis appears to facilitate falling asleep and to increase Stage 4 sleep. Difficulty...
To prevent rebound in rapid eye movement (REM) sleep, withdrawal of a single therapeutic dose over 5 or 6 days (e.g., reducing dosage from 3 to 2 doses daily for 1 week) has been recommended when barbiturates are discontinued following prolonged use.Seizures...
but do share the valepotriate constituents. Two high-quality studies that used V. edulis noted improvements in sleep latency and sleep quality in children with intellectual deficit (20 mg/kg × 2 weeks) and improved REM sleep with reduced waking in insomnia patients (450 mg single dose hydroa...
serotonin or noradrenaline – available between nerve synapses in the brain, but they do so in different ways. The effect of this should be increased energy and improvement of mood. We also know that they reduce the amount of REM sleep, which will also cause...
Because the average patient with high blood pressure uses 386 days of antihypertensive medications annually (Table 3), these estimates imply that a doubling of co-payments would reduce days supplied by more than 1 month (38.6 days). This pattern—less responsiveness to price changes for disease-...
sleep latency, are found in most patients with schizophrenia and appear to be an important part of the pathophysiology of this disorder. Some studies also reported alterations of stage 2 sleep, slow-wave sleep (SWS) and rapid eye movement (REM) sleep variables, i.e. reduced REM latency and...
Surgery to repair arteries (penile arterial reconstructive surgery) can reduce impotence caused by obstructions that block the flow of blood to the penis. The best candidates for such surgery are young men with discrete blockage of an artery because of a physical injury to the pubic area or a...
care plus a daily spontaneous breathing trial.[20] Finally, a fourth RCT suggested that early exercise and mobilization through physical and occupational therapy during periods of sedation interruption may reduce the risk of delirium and allow for an earlier return to independent functional status.[21...
Both drugs had similar effects on sleep parameters and decreased the number of awakenings and the percentage of slow wave sleep. Both drugs tended to increase light sleep and did not modify REM sleep, except for a tendency to ... M Schittecatte,A Crine,J Wilmotte,... - 《Current Therapeu...
In a study of a 39-year-old woman with a diagnosis of migraine without aura (17-year history), administration of yokukansan 7.5 g/day was observed to drastically reduce frequency and severity of chronic migraine and tension headache episodes that had become resistant to multiple pharmaceutical ...