Talks：

Insomnia and pharmacological treatment

Name：

黃玉書(Yu-Shu Huang)

Position：

Professor of Department of Psychiatry

Affiliation：

Department of Psychiatry and Sleep center, Chang Gung Memorial Hospital

Email：

yushuhuang1212@gmail.com

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Research Interests：

Hypersomnia, narcolepsy, Insomnia, pediatric OSA, and ADHD

Selected Publications：

Prof. Huang has published more than one hundred of peer-reviewed articles now.

Abstract：

As we know sedative-hypnotic drugs can be used if insomnia cannot be adequately treated by addressing directly an underlying problem responsible for causing the insomnia. However when we applied medicine treatment to insomnia, several factors should be considered, including the severity of insomnia, the daytime symptoms, and the pattern of insomnia. Also the medication used to improve sleep such as sleep pills should be used for a short period of time, for examples: 2 to 4 weeks. However, recent studies that improved the safety and efficiency of longer-term non Benzodiazepine treatment of chronic insomnia have been reported. We will update pharmacological treatment of insomnia in this lecture.