1. Ineffectiveness of electrosleep in chronic primary insomnia
- Author
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Rona Buchbinder, Frederick Snyder, and Bernard L. Frankel
- Subjects
Adult ,Male ,medicine.medical_specialty ,Personality Inventory ,Urinary system ,Primary Insomnia ,Anxiety ,Electronarcosis ,Mood scale ,Polygraph ,Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous) ,Sleep Initiation and Maintenance Disorders ,Surveys and Questionnaires ,medicine ,Humans ,17-Hydroxycorticosteroids ,business.industry ,Depression ,Electromyography ,Electroencephalography ,Middle Aged ,Electrosleep ,Circadian Rhythm ,Psychiatry and Mental health ,Electrooculography ,Evaluation Studies as Topic ,Physical therapy ,Research studies ,Female ,business - Abstract
Seventeen patients with chronic primary insomnia each received 30 daytime electrosleep treatments in two courses at two different pulse frequencies over a seven-week period. The analyses of pretreatment and posttreatment all-night sleep polygraph recordings, sleep questionnaire and mood scale responses, and 24-hour urinary steroid levels did not demonstrate any significant effect in these patients. Future research studies of electrosleep should emphasize effective double-blind techniques, objective measure of evaluation and response, and the careful delineation of patient populations which this new treatment technique may really help.
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- 1973