Article: Phase II Studies Show Investigational Insomnia Agent Gaboxadol Improved Deep Sleep and Key Sleep Measures in Adults with Primary and Transient Insomnia.

Article: Napping may assist in the learning process.
AORN Journal;  December 1, 2002 ;     274 words ......more than four times the amount of deep, slow wave sleep and rapid eye movement sleep than...naps. Participants spent more time in slow wave sleep on the day of the practice sessions...took place. Researchers suggest that slow wave sleep functions as the initial processing...

Article: Parasomnias or paranormal--things that go clunk in the night.(SLEEP MEDICINE)
FOCUS: Journal for Respiratory Care & Sleep Medicine;  June 22, 2004 ;     700+ words ......University of Illinois (Chicago) has zeroed in on a negative slow wave (Delta wave), isolating it as an event related potential with...decoys for the trial. The researchers found that a negative slow wave measured at 150-500 ms post-stimulus had greater amplitude...

Article: Arena issued patent for 5-HT2A receptor modulators.
BIOTECH Patent News;  December 1, 2005 ;     700+ words ......0002) increase in the amount of deep, or slow wave, sleep in volunteers with normal sleep...and an increase in delta power during slow wave sleep. The ongoing evaluation also continues...amount of time spent in deep sleep, or slow wave sleep (stage 3 and stage 4 sleep), the...

Article: Lavender improves sleep.(News Front)
Household & Personal Products Industry;  March 1, 2004 ;     102 words ......and supported by the Sense of Smell Institute. Dr. Goel found that lavender increased the amount of time subjects spend in slow wave or deep sleep, resulting in higher vigor scores on the Profile of Mood States (POMS) test and more alertness and energy the...

Article: Event-related brain potential (ERP) indicators of unconscious Psi: a replication using subjects unselected for Psi.
The Journal of Parapsychology;  June 1, 1998 ;     700+ words ......P100 (a positive-going peak observed at about 100 ms poststimulus onset) and a negative slow wave or NSW (hereafter referred to as the Late Negative Slow Wave, or L-NSW, measured at 400-500 ms poststimulus), were larger in response to target stimuli...

Article: Treatment of primary hypotension by electroacupuncture at Neiguan and Gongsun-A report of 100 cases.(Brief article)
The Journal of Chinese Medicine;  February 1, 2005 ;     125 words ......acupuncture group, a G6805-1 electroacupuncture device was connected bilaterally to the needles after deqi was obtained, providing a slow wave at 2-5 per second for 20 minutes. The daily dose of the decoction was divided into two portions and taken twice daily. Both...

Article: Neurogen Proprietary Insomnia Compound Data for Two Studies Presented at Associated Professional Sleep Societies Annual Meeting.(Clinical report)
Business Wire;  June 13, 2007 ;     700+ words ......Quality and Next Day Function in a Transient Insomnia Study (Phase 2a) NG2-73 is a partial...single-night, polysomnographic model of transient insomnia. This model of transient insomnia used both first night adaptation and...

Article: Assessment of Current and Future Opportunities and Threats in the Insomnia Market in the US, EU and Japanese Pharmaceutical Markets.
Business Wire;  March 2, 2006 ;     459 words ......effectiveness and niche strategies are essential. The transient insomnia market is severely under served, and presents an ideal...to grow the value of niche patient groups, such as the transient insomnia market - Benchmark recently launched and pipeline hypnotics...

Article: Neurogen Proprietary Insomnia Compound Data Presented at American Psychiatric Association Annual Meeting.(Clinical report)
Business Wire;  May 23, 2007 ;     700+ words ......Novel GABAA Partial Agonist, Rapidly Induced Sleep in a Transient Insomnia Study (Phase 2a) NG2-73 is a partial GABAA agonist with...incorporated a single-night, polysomnography (PSG) model of transient insomnia using both first night sleep laboratory adaptation and...

Article: slow-wave sleep
A Dictionary of Biology;      4 words ...slow-wave sleep See sleep .

Article: Somaxon Pharmaceuticals, Inc. Initiates Phase III Clinical Trials of SILENOR in Patients with Insomnia; Product Will Be Evaluated in Adult and Elderly Patients with Primary Chronic Insomnia and Transient Insomnia.
Business Wire;  June 9, 2005 ;     700+ words ...SAN DIEGO -- Somaxon Pharmaceuticals, Inc., a specialty pharmaceutical company focused on developing and marketing products for the treatment of insomnia and other neuro-psychiatric disorders, today announced the initiation of patient enrollment in the first Phase III clinical trial of SILENOR(TM)

Article: Insomnia
U*X*L Complete Health Resource;      700+ words ......often than those who are single or married. Short-term, or transient, insomnia usually lasts no more than a few days. Long-term, or chronic...properly, leaving them open to infection and disease. CAUSES Transient insomnia is often caused by a temporary, upsetting incident in...

Article: Eisai Enters into In-licensing Agreement with Sepracor for Eszopiclone Insomnia Treatment.
JCN Newswires;  July 27, 2007 ;     342 words ......Sepracor. With its short-acting feature that allows fewer interruptions during sleep, the compound may help patients with transient insomnia as well as chronic insomnia in the elderly. Furthermore, in clinical studies conducted in the U.S., the compound was well-tolerat...

Article: Sleep disruptions may increase chance of developing diabetes
AP Worldstream;  December 31, 2007 ;     348 words ......several stages, with the so-called slow-wave sleep considered the deepest. Whenever the volunteers went into slow-wave sleep the researchers made noise...a diabetes risk. This decrease in slow-wave sleep resembles the changes in sleep...