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Also known as hypnotics, soporific drug, sleeping pill, pharmaceutical sleep aids, Sleep Inducers, Sleep Promoting Agents, Sleep Aids, Pharmaceutical, pharmaceutical sleep aid
A hypnotic (from Greek Hypnos, sleep), also known as a somnifacient or soporific, and commonly known as sleeping pills, are a class of psychoactive drugs whose primary function is to induce sleep and to treat insomnia (sleeplessness). Some hypnotics are also used to treat narcolepsy and hypersomnia by improving sleep at night and thereby reducing daytime sleepiness. Certain hypnotics can be used to treat non-restorative sleep and associated symptoms in conditions like fibromyalgia as well.
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- Zolpidem tablets, a common but potent hypnotic used for insomnia.
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- Sedative; Somnifacient; Soporific; Sleeping pill; Sleep aid; Sedative–hypnotic; Hypnotica
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- Insomnia, hypersomnia, narcolepsy
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- Various
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- Variable
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Research
160,120 papers- Is hypnotic assessment relevant to neurology?Neurological sciences : official journal of the Italian Neurological Society and of the Italian Society of Clinical Neurophysiology · 2022
- Hypnotic suggestibility in dissociative and related disorders: A meta-analysis.Neuroscience and biobehavioral reviews · 2022
- Hypnotic psychotherapy.The Medical clinics of North America · 1948
- Hypnotic influence of a leader.American journal of psychoanalysis · 2022
- New Hypnotic Drug Development and Pharmacologic Considerations for Clinical Anesthesia.Anesthesiology clinics · 2017
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- sleep medicine
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- Hypnotics
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- Granat Encyclopedic Dictionary
- has effect
- sleep
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Article · 中文
安眠药（英語：Hypnotic） （源自希腊语 Hypnos, sleep(睡眠)），是一类精神药物，用来提升睡眠品質，治疗失眠或术前麻醉，服用过量会致死。
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