Pharmacotherapeutic treatment of nightmares and insomnia in posttraumatic stress disorder: An overview of the literature

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Volumn 1071, Issue , 2006, Pages 502-507

  Van Liempt, Saskia ^a   Vermetten, Eric ^a,b   Geuze, Elbert ^a   Westenberg, Herman ^b  

^a CENTRAL MILITARY HOSPITAL   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Insomnia; Nightmare; PTSD; Sleep

Indexed keywords

ANTICONVULSIVE AGENT; ANTIDEPRESSANT AGENT; ANXIOLYTIC AGENT; BUSPIRONE; CLONAZEPAM; CLONIDINE; CYPROHEPTADINE; FLUVOXAMINE; GABAPENTIN; IMIPRAMINE; LEVOMEPROMAZINE; MIRTAZAPINE; NEFAZODONE; NEUROLEPTIC AGENT; OLANZAPINE; PAROXETINE; PHENELZINE; PRAZOSIN; QUETIAPINE; RISPERIDONE; SEROTONIN UPTAKE INHIBITOR; SERTRALINE; TEMAZEPAM; THIORIDAZINE; TIAGABINE; TOPIRAMATE; TRAZODONE; ZOLPIDEM;

CLINICAL TRIAL; CONFERENCE PAPER; HUMAN; INSOMNIA; NIGHTMARE; PARAMETER; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; SLEEP DISORDER; SYMPTOM;

EID: 33746452104     PISSN: 00778923     EISSN: 17496632     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1196/annals.1364.053     Document Type: Conference Paper

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