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This article provides an overview on hypnotics and sedatives. Hypnotics are drugs which produce drowsiness and facilitate the onset and maintenance of a state of sleep resembling natural sleep in its electroencephalogram (EEG) features and from which the recipient may be easily aroused. The effect produced by hypnotics is known as hypnosis. Sedatives are the drug which moderately depress the [...]