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Article: Treatment of sleep-related symptoms.(insomnia)
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- Clinical Psychiatry News
- Article date:
- September 1, 2005
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According to the chairman of the National Commission on Sleep Disorder Research (1993), "what we are dealing with here are two gigantic problems for our society-an epidemic of undiagnosed and untreated sleep disorders; and pervasive sleep deprivation with all its consequences for errors, accidents, disability, damages and death."
Two separate neural circuits generate sleep and wakefulness; their malfunction can provoke symptoms of sleepiness or insomnia. Patients suffering excessive sleepiness may benefit from the use of any available stimulant, but amphetamines may result in abuse or hyperactivity because of their nonselective mechanism of action; in contrast, ...