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Article: ACADIA Pharmaceuticals Announces Positive Clinical Trial Results Demonstrating That ACP-103 Increases Slow Wave Sleep.
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- April 19, 2006
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SAN DIEGO, April 19 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- ACADIA Pharmaceuticals Inc. today reported top-line results from a proof-of-concept clinical study that assessed the effect of ACP-103 on deep, or slow wave, sleep in healthy older volunteers using polysomnography (PSG). Results of the study demonstrated that ACP-103 induced a robust and statistically significant increase in slow wave sleep that was dose-related. ACP-103 treatment also had a positive impact on measures for sleep maintenance, including decreases in the number of awakenings after sleep onset and in the time awake after sleep onset. ACP-103 is ACADIA's proprietary serotonin 5-HT2A inverse agonist that blocks ...