Amfetamine seems to have an anticonvulsant effect in patients with nocturnal seizures and a favourable impact on drowsiness induced by AEDs [ 9, 41, 82].
Beyond describing many drowsiness-inducing trips to museums and lengthy walks ("It took about three hours, I suppose, to do the complete circuit of the parks"), he also relies on recycling books, articles and television documentary material into research-heavy passages.
This interpretation is supported by two other 2-DG studies where, in fact, distinctive columnar patterns of 2-DG consumption were observed in rat neocortex during more stable states of drowsiness as induced by systemic applications of irreversible alpha-adrenergic blockers (Savaki et al. 1982) and subanesthetic doses of Ketamine (Hammer and Herkenham 1983).
Antihistamines generally offer only mild relief from the symptoms of poison ivy, but if you take oral medications before bedtime, their combination of anti-itch and drowsiness-inducing effects can help you get some rest.
These nonprescription drugs tend to induce drowsiness, though less so than diphenhydramine, which is the main ingredient in Benadryl.
Add the effects of food, which can also induce drowsiness, and an overpowering desire to sleep may result.
Current treatments for motion sickness do little more than induce drowsiness, Dr. Stoffregen said.
The textile workers, who were clad in period clothing, were making sleep bags -- small pillows filled with herbs that were meant to induce drowsiness.
Antipsychotic drugs (major tranquilizers), tricyclic antidepressants, and antihistamines can also induce drowsiness, though this is not their primary function.
Thalidomide was developed in West Germany in the mid-1950s and was found to induce drowsiness and sleep.
