Pharmacodynamics of temazepam in primary insomnia: Assessment of the value of quantitative electroencephalography and saccadic eye movements in predicting improvement of sleep

quantitative electroencephalographic parameters and saccadic eye movements are frequently used as pharmacodynamic measures of benzodiazepine effect. We investigated the relationship between these measures and the hypnotic effect.

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