Anxiety Sensitivity is Associated with Frequency of Sleep Medication Use Above and Beyond Self-Reported Sleep Quality

Self-report of memory and affective dysf

Self-report of memory and affective dysfunction in association with medication use in a sample of individuals with chronic sleep disturbance

✍ Mary Pat McAndrews; Leonid Kayumov; Ron Phillipson; Colin M. Shapiro 📂 Article 📅 2000 🏛 John Wiley and Sons 🌐 English ⚖ 85 KB

Benzodiazepines produce memory disturbance after acute administration. It is not clear whether chronic use of benzodiazepines is hazardous to memory processes. Epidemiological data indicate that a large proportion (10-30 per cent) of individuals with sleep dysfunction take hypnotic aids for a year o