In any case, if you're struggling to get enough restful sleep, caffeine is often at least partly to blame. No one is suggesting that you completely cut out your morning cup of coffee, but it's probably a good idea to save caffeine consumption only for the morning and only take in limi...
Stimulants such as armodafinil (Nuvigil) and modafinil (Provigil) help preventdaytime sleepiness. Melatonin agonists like agomelatine (Valdoxan), ramelteon (Rozerem), and tasimelteon (Hetlioz) move your body clock, which can help with adjusting to your new time. You can get some sleeping pills ove...
A vigil is defined as "a period of keeping awake during the time usually spent asleep," so is it any wonder that modafinil, the drug used to treat excessive sleepiness, is calledProvigil? The word 'neuron' inNeurontin(gabapentin) makes us think of the drug's aim, which is to treat ner...
2009. Precipitating pharmakologies and capital entrapments: Narcolepsy and the strange cases of Provigil and Xyrem. Medical Anthropology, 28: 11–30. ); they are also increasingly being used to enhance the mental capacities of "normal" individuals, that is, those who are not ill (Barondes ...
After he ditches me to go back to work in London, I plan to find a language school somewhere in the country and take an intensive Spanish language course. But more on that later. I often get questions about how Liebling and I have managed to survive doing long distance for so ...