Sleep Medicine Essentials [Paperback]

Based on the highly acclaimed Sleep: A Comprehensive Handbook, this is a concise, convenient, practical, and affordable handbook on sleep medicine. It consists of forty topic-focused chapters written by a panel of international experts covering a range of topics including insomnia, sleep apnea, narcolepsy, parasomnias, circadian sleep disorders, sleep in the elderly, sleep in children, sleep among women, and sleep in the medical, psychiatric, and neurological disorders. It serves as an effective Sleep Medicine board examination review, and every chapter includes sample boards -style questions for test preparation and practice.Preface.

Contributors.

1. Normal Human Sleep (Anil Natesan Rama, S. Charles Cho, and Clete A. Kushida).

2. Neurobiology of Sleep (Gerald A. Marks).

3. Physiologic Processes During Sleep (Leon Rosenthal).

4. Neuropharmacology of Sleep and Wakefulness (Edgar Garcia-Rill, Tiffany Wallace-Huitt, Mark Mennemeier, Amanda Charlesworth, David Heister, Meijun Ye, and Charlotte Yates).

5. Insomnia: Prevalence and Daytime Consequences (W. David Brown).

6. Causes of Insomnia (Edward J. Stepanski).

7. Evaluation of Insomnia (Douglas E. Moul and Daniel J. Buysse).

8. Pharmacologic Therapy of Insomnia (Teofilo Lee-Chiong and Michael Sateia).

9. Nonpharmacologic Therapy of Insomnia (Melanie K. Means and Jack D. Edinger).

10. Narcolepsy (Rafael Pelayo and Maria Cecilia Lopes).

11. Idiopathic Hypersomnia (Stephen N. Brooks).

12. Posttraumatic and Recurrent Hypersomnia (Carolyn M. D'Ambrosio and Jlì