Abstract
Prescriptions for drugs that alter sleep are, with those for antibiotics, the commonest prescriptions of clinical practice. Some drugs that alter sleep are intended so to do and others, prescribed in the hope of altering mood, will generally alter sleep too, while yet others, prescribed for somatic ailments, may have unsuspected effects on the brain observable during sleep. I shall below take as a primary example the study in man of a drug expected to have hypnotic actions, following studies in animals and preliminary human testing.
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Oswald, I. (1981). Sleep Studies in Clinical Pharmacology. In: Lader, M.H., Richens, A. (eds) Methods in Clinical Pharmacology—Central Nervous System. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-06038-2_4
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