Hypnotic efficacy of zaleplon for daytime sleep in rested individuals

Sleep

Volumn 27, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 895-898

  Whitmore, Jeffrey N ^a   Fischer Jr , Joseph R ^b   Storm, William F ^a  

^a AIR FORCE RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^b USAF   (United States)

Author keywords

Daytime; Nap; Performance; Sleep; Zaleplon

Indexed keywords

HYPNOTIC SEDATIVE AGENT; PLACEBO; ZALEPLON;

ADULT; AROUSAL; ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; COGNITION; COGNITIVE PERFORMANCE TEST; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DAYTIME SLEEP; DOUBLE BLIND PROCEDURE; DRUG EFFECT; DRUG EFFICACY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INSOMNIA; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; POLYSOMNOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOMETRY; PSYCHOMOTOR VIGILANCE TEST; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SLEEP; SLEEP ARCHITECTURE; SLEEP PATTERN; SLEEP QUALITY; SLOW WAVE SLEEP; TASK PERFORMANCE; VOLUNTEER;

EID: 4143089263     PISSN: 01618105     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/sleep/27.5.895     Document Type: Article

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