Open pilot study of gabapentin versus trazodone to treat insomnia in alcoholic outpatients

Psychiatry and Clinical Neurosciences

Volumn 57, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 542-544

  Karam Hage, Maher ^a   Brower, Kirk J ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

Alcoholism; Drug therapy; Gabapentin; Insomnia; Trazodone

Indexed keywords

GABAPENTIN; TRAZODONE;

ADULT; ALCOHOLISM; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; DROWSINESS; DRUG DOSE REGIMEN; DRUG EFFECT; DRUG TOLERABILITY; DRUG UTILIZATION; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; INSOMNIA; MALE; OPEN STUDY; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; OUTPATIENT; PILOT STUDY; QUESTIONNAIRE; SCORING SYSTEM; SOMNOLENCE;

ACETIC ACIDS; ALCOHOLISM; AMINES; ANTIDEPRESSIVE AGENTS, SECOND-GENERATION; CYCLOHEXANECARBOXYLIC ACIDS; FEMALE; GAMMA-AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; HUMANS; MALE; OUTPATIENTS; PILOT PROJECTS; SLEEP INITIATION AND MAINTENANCE DISORDERS; SLEEP STAGES; TRAZODONE;

EID: 0141893553     PISSN: 13231316     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1440-1819.2003.01161.x     Document Type: Article

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