Imidazopyridines is the name of the class of drugs for inducing sleepiness, which is quite a modern one. These drugs relate to benzodiazepines. Such medicines, as Zolpidem (its brand name is Ambien) and Alpidem belong to imidazopyridines.
Insomnia is any sleeplessness, which impairs the next – day functioning and cause such problems, as difficulty concentrating, fatigue, irritability, sleepiness. People, who suffer from insomnia, have one or more of the below mentioned phenomena:
Difficulty falling asleep;
Waking up many times during the night and experiencing difficulty going back ot sleep;
Waking up too early in the morning.
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Jet Lag is the term, which is applied to provide the description of a combination of symptoms, induced by some major rapid shift in environmental time during a person’s travel to a new time zone. The word “jet” is used because this phenomenon is mostly noticed after flights by an airplane. To common symptoms of Jet Lag may be referred the following ones: broken sleep pattern, dehydration, fatigue, irritability, etc. may be referred.
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Light Sleep is the term, mostly applied in clinical practice with the aim of describing non – REM stage 1, and, though more rarely, stage 2 of sleep. People, who are in light sleep, keep drifting in and out of their sleep, and they can be awakened without any problem. The eyes’ movement is slow, and the activity of muscles slows down. People, who are awakened from stage 1 sleep, usually can remember some fragmented visual images, in addition, the great majority of them experiences sudden muscle contractions, which are called “hypnic myoclonia”, and it is often preceded by a sensation of starting to fall.
Light Therapy is the kind of therapy, in which the person is being exposed to bright light at the appropriate time of the day, in order to affect his or her timing, quality, as well as duration of sleep.
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