Hostname: page-component-8448b6f56d-xtgtn Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2024-04-24T00:42:27.200Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false
  • English
  • Français

The Effects of Four Hypnotic Drugs and Placebo on Normal Subjects' Sleeping and Dreaming at Home

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 January 2018

Hilary Morgan ,
D. F. Scott  and
C. R. B. Joyce
Hilary Morgan
Affiliation:
Department of Electroencephalography, The London Hospital; Department of Medicine, Royal Infirmary, Bristol, and Department of Neurology, Frenchay Hospital, Bristol
D. F. Scott
Affiliation:
EEG Department, The London Hospital, Whitechapel, E.1
C. R. B. Joyce
Affiliation:
London Hospital Medical College, Turner Street, London, E.1.; now in Medical Department, CIBA Limited, Basle, Switzerland
Get access Rights & Permissions [Opens in a new window]

Extract

Hypnotic drugs are most commonly used with patients at home, yet with few exceptions (Ghernish, Gruber and Kohlstaedt, 1956) most trials of hypnotic drugs are carried out in hospitals. Studies on such patients by general practitioners are valuable, but they often rely on retrospective or other forms of delayed reporting and their validity is thereby somewhat limited. This preliminary study therefore compared four widely used hypnotics with a placebo when normal subjects were sleeping at home. Their impressions of the quality of their sleep and other information, including their dreams, were collected by telephone the morning after the drug had been administered. All subjects were healthy and did not complain of sleep disorders; neither before nor at the time of the trial were they taking either hypnotics or other medication.

Type
Research Article
Information
The British Journal of Psychiatry , Volume 117 , Issue 541 , December 1970 , pp. 649 - 652
Copyright
Copyright © The Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1970 

Access options

Get access to the full version of this content by using one of the access options below. (Log in options will check for institutional or personal access. Content may require purchase if you do not have access.)

References

Cochrane, W. G., and Cox, G. M. (1957). Experimental Designs. New York: Wiley.Google Scholar
Ghernish, S. M., Gruber, G. M., and Kohlstaedt, K. G. (1956). ‘Obtaining data by telephone: a clinical evaluation of hypnotic drugs.’ Proc. Soc. exp. Biol. Med., 93, 162–5.Google Scholar
Gottschalk, L. A., Gleser, G. C., Springer, K. J., Kaplan, S. M., Shanon, J., and Ross, W. D. (1960) ‘Effects of perphenazine on verbal behaviour patterns.’ Arch. gen. Psychiat., 2, 632–9.Google Scholar
Joyce, C. R. B., and Swallow, J. N. (1964). ‘The controlled trial in dental surgery.’ Dent. Practitioner, 15, 44–7.Google Scholar
Whitman, R. M., Pierce, G. M., Maas, J. W., and Baldridge, B. (1961). ‘Drugs and dreams. II: imipramine and prochlorperazine.’ Comprehensive Psychiat., 11, 219–26.Google Scholar
Whitman, R. M., Pierce, G. M., Maas, J. W., and Baldridge, B. (1963). ‘Drugs, dreams and the experimental subject.’ Canad. psychiat. Ass. J., 8, 395–9.Google Scholar
Submit a response

eLetters

No eLetters have been published for this article.