The British Journal of Psychiatry (1970) 117: 649-652. doi: 10.1192/bjp.117.541.649
© 1970 The Royal College of Psychiatrists
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The Effects of Four Hypnotic Drugs and Placebo on Normal Subjects' Sleeping and Dreaming at Home

HILARY MORGAN M.A., M.B., B.Chir., M.R.C.P.1, D. F. SCOTT M.B., Ch.B., M.R.C.P., M.R.C.P.E., D.P.M.2, and C. R. B. JOYCE M.A., B.Sc., Ph.D.3

1 Research Assistant, Department of Medicine, Royal Infirmary, Bristol, and Department of Neurology, Frenchay Hospital, Bristol
2 Consultant-in-Charge, EEG Department, The London Hospital, Whitechapel, E.1
3 Medical Department, CIBA Limited, Basle, Switzerland

The effects upon quality of sleep and dreaming of four hypnotics, each at a single dose, have been compared, double-blind, with placebo in ten healthy subjects sleeping at home. They recorded their reports by telephone on being awakened by the experimenter at a pre-arranged convenient time. Clear differences between the treatments were demonstrable.

Submitted on June 30, 1969