Targeting sleep disruption using sodium oxybate in chronic cluster headache prophylaxis

Neurology

Volumn 77, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 16-17

  Silberstein, Stephen D ^a   Robbins, Matthew S ^b  

^a THOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b ALBERT EINSTEIN COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

4 HYDROXYBUTYRIC ACID; NEUROTRANSMITTER; OXYBATE SODIUM;

ACTIMETRY; AMNESIA; CLUSTER HEADACHE; COMA; CONSCIOUSNESS DISORDER; DEATH; DIZZINESS; DRUG ABUSE; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG SAFETY; DRUG TARGETING; EDITORIAL; HUMAN; NIGHT SLEEP; POLYSOMNOGRAPHY; POSTMARKETING SURVEILLANCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROPHYLAXIS; RESPIRATION DEPRESSION; SCIENTIFIC LITERATURE; SEIZURE; SIDE EFFECT; SLEEP DISORDER; SLOW WAVE SLEEP; TREATMENT RESPONSE; VOMITING; WEIGHT REDUCTION;

EID: 80051550647     PISSN: 00283878     EISSN: 1526632X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1212/WNL.0b013e3182231445     Document Type: Editorial

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