Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Rutgers researchers think they have identified a biological process for drug and alcohol addiction, and believe existing insomnia treatments could be used to reduce or eliminate cravings. A review inBiological Psychiatryexplains how ongoing work at the Rutgers Brain H...
The insomnia score was calculated and further divided according to the severity. All 7 questions for assessing the insomnia severity were given a score according to students’ answers to each question. For example, for the question about difficulty falling asleep, students who answered ‘none’ were...
Long-term use of sleeping pills can cause dependency. This can materialize in several forms, including needing a higher and higher dose to fall asleep as your body “gets used to” a sleeping pill, or developing rebound insomnia if you stop taking the sleep medication.2Rebound insomnia occurs ...
In the end, more research is needed for a conclusive understanding of the relationship between melatonin production and supplementation for ASD individuals, but there appear to be some promising findings. We advise anyone seeking out medication for sleep with ASD to consult with their doctor first....
For the new study, published in BMJ Open, a team at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston compared 238 women who had started using medication to tackle insomnia with 447 matched women who were not on sleeping drugs. The average age was 49.5. ...
Listed below are some of the types of drugs used to treatsleep disorders. Your doctor can prescribe the appropriate medication for your particular sleep problems. Anti-Parkinsonian drugs (dopamineagonists),such asgabapentin enacarbil (Horizant), pramipexole (Mirapex), ropinirole (Requip), and rotigotin...
Zolpidem Tartrate 10 mg is also known by the popular brand name Ambien and is a medication for the treatment of all forms and insomnia and sleeplessness. * Zaleplon 10 mg When looking at health complications, not many people would think that a good sleeping pattern is one of the most import...
A new survey of child psychiatrists indicates that insomnia is a major problem among children in mental health treatment and at least a quarter of these patients are given sleep medication. The results of the survey, conducted by Judith Owens, MD, a slee
Listed below are some of the types of drugs used to treatsleep disorders. Your doctor can prescribe the appropriate medication for your particular sleep problems. Anti-Parkinsonian drugs (dopamineagonists),such asgabapentin enacarbil (Horizant), pramipexole (Mirapex), ropinirole (Requip), and rotigotin...
The article reports on a study from the Duke University Medical Center in Durham, North Carolina, which suggests that a belief in the importance of sleeping medication for treatment might make insomnia patients resistant to a common psychoth...