A sedative drug decreases activity, moderates excitement, and calms the recipient, whereas a hypnotic drug produces drowsiness and facilitates the onset and maintenance of a state of sleep that resembles natural sleep in its electroencephalographic characteristics and from which the recipient can be aroused easily.
A sedative treatment lowers movement, moderates excitement, and calms recipients, whereas a hypnotic medication induces drowsiness and encourages a sleep that is resemblyable to normal sleep and that can easily induce recipients.
