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===Melatonin agonists===
===Melatonin agonists===
Ramelteon is one available agonist.
Tasimelteon can help transient insomnia due to shift changes related to employment..<ref name="pmid19054552">{{cite journal| author=Rajaratnam SM, Polymeropoulos MH, Fisher DM, Roth T, Scott C, Birznieks G et al.| title=Melatonin agonist tasimelteon (VEC-162) for transient insomnia after sleep-time shift: two randomised controlled multicentre trials. | journal=Lancet | year= 2009 | volume= 373 | issue= 9662 | pages= 482-91 | pmid=19054552
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Revision as of 21:11, 8 December 2009

In medicine, sleep initiation and maintenance disorders, including insomnia, are "disorders characterized by impairment of the ability to initiate or maintain sleep. This may occur as a primary disorder or in association with another medical or psychiatric condition."[1][2]

Treatment

GABA agonists

BZ1 selective agonists

In treating persistent insomnia in adults, 6 weeks of zolpidem 10 mg nightly along with weekly sessions of cognitive behavioral therapy followed by 6 months of monthly sessions and no medications yielded the most remission of insomnia in a randomized controlled trial.[3]

In geriatrics, the benefits of zolpidem for insomnia to not clearly exceed the drug toxicity.[4][5]

Melatonin agonists

Ramelteon is one available agonist.

Tasimelteon can help transient insomnia due to shift changes related to employment..[6]

References