PARALDEHYDE AS A HYPNOTIC.

Hypnotic dreams as a lens into hypnotic dynamics.

The hypnotic relationship is an important parameter for both experimental and therapeutic contexts. Hypnotic dreams may serve as a lens to examine the hypnotic relationship. By answering 5 questions per item, 70 judges rated 12 accounts of brief hypnotic dreams conducted as part of the Stanford Hypnotic Susceptibility Scale, Form C. The data show that the judges were able to correctly discern h...

Intramuscular Paraldehyde

Chloral Hydrate and Paraldehyde as Drugs of Addiction

drug by a physician. Instead of giving their patients rational treatment, i.e., investigating fully the causes leading to sleeplessness and removing them, medical men often resort to the easier course of giving powerful chemical substances with a soporific action. Again, certain manufacturers of medicinal drugs employ on. their staff medical men and others who carry on an extensive propaganda b...

The use of trazodone as a hypnotic: a critical review.

BACKGROUND The last few years have seen a remarkable rise in the off-label use of trazodone for inducing sleep in nondepressed patients, to a degree that it is prescribed for this purpose as commonly as the leading hypnotic. In view of this widespread popularity, it seems prudent to review what is known of the safety and efficacy of trazodone when used in this context. DATA SOURCES AND SELECT...

Heart-rate variability as a quantitative measure of hypnotic depth.

The authors investigated whether heart-rate variability can serve as a device for real-time quantitative measurement of hypnotic depth. This study compared the continuous self-rated hypnotic depth (SRHD) of 10 volunteers with heart rate, amplitude, and frequency changes from a time-frequency analysis of heart-rate variability (HRV). The authors found significant linear relationships between SRH...