Psychopharmacology of sleep
By: sponsored by the British Association for Psychopharmacology ; editor, David Wheatley.
Contributors: Wheatley, David, 1919-; British Association for Psychopharmacology.
Publisher: Raven Press; Lippincott Williams & Wilkins
Published: 1981
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 246
Subjects: Hypnotics.; Sleep -- Physiological aspects.; Sleep disorders.; Sleep -- Drug effects.; Hypnotics and sedatives.; Sleep disorders -- Drug therapy.
Notes: Includes bibliographies and index.
Chiefly revised papers presented at the annual summer meeting of the British Association of Psychopharmacology, held at the University of Exeter, 1980.
Table of contents: title: Sleep in animals / D.J. Bruce Durie; title: Neurotransmitters and sleep / Werner P. Koella; title: Endogenous sleep peptides / René Drucker-Colin; title: Biological rhythms, sleep, and drugs / Alain Reinberg; title: Sleep and air travel / H.M. Wegmann and K.E. Klein; title: Benzodeazepine receptors in the central nervous system / Phil Skolnick, Wallace B. Mendelson, and Steven M. Paul; title: Pharmacokinetics of hypnotic drugs / D.D. Breimer and R. Jochemsen; title: Effects of drugs on sleep / David Wheatley; title: Aftereffects of sleeping drugs / Alyson Bond and Malcolm Lader; title: Adrenoceptor drugs and sleep / T.A. Betts; title: Other sleep disorders and their treatment / D.F. Scott; title: Do we need any new hypnotics? / [edited by] P.B. Bradley.