Drug Treatment of Sleep Disorders

• Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Άλλοι συγγραφείς: Guglietta, Antonio (Επιμελητής έκδοσης)
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2015.
• Σειρά: Milestones in Drug Therapy,
• Θέματα: Medicine.; Neurosciences.; Pharmacology.; Psychopharmacology.; Pharmacotherapy.; Biomedicine.; Pharmacology/Toxicology.

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...

Πίνακας περιεχομένων:

• 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.