Aarti Jagannath

Dreaming of Better Treatments: Advances in Drug Development for Sleep Medicine and Chronotherapy.

Journal of Sleep Research May 10, 2025 Brooke A Prakash, Ishani Shah, Guohao Ni et al. 2 citations

Throughout history, the development of new sleep medicines has been driven by progress in our understanding of the mechanisms underlying sleep. Ancient civilisations used their understanding of the sedative nature of natural herbs and compounds to induce sleep. The discovery of barbiturates and bromides heralded a new era of synthetic sleep medicine in the 19th century. This was followed by the...