Sleep Medicine [Hardcover]

This book offers a concise, methodological approach to the evaluation and treatment of patients with sleep disorders. The management of sleep disorders requires an understanding of sleep itself, thus the book initially discusses aspects of normal sleep. The remainder of the book provides a formula for critical assessment, in which the symptoms and signs and the psychological and medical background of the patient, in conjunction with an understanding of the neurobiological and psychological basis of sleep disorders, are considered. Polysomnographic studies and other laboratory tests supplement and redefine clinical information and assist physicians in their treatment options.

Preface
Section I: Sleep
1. Normal human sleep
2. Neurobiology of sleep
3. Breathing during wakefulness and sleep
4. Chronobiology
5. Ontogeny of sleep
6. Dreams and other mental activity during sleep
Section II: Sleep disorders
7. Approach to the patient
8. Sleepiness and sleep deprivation
9. Insomnia
10. Narcolepsy and related disorders
11. Restless legs syndrome and periodic limb movement disorder
12. Chronobiological disorders
13. Obstructive sleepapnea syndrome
14. Central sleep apnea and hypoventilation during sleep
15. Parasomnia
16. Psychiatric disorders and sleep
17. Medical causes of disordered sleep
18. Sleep disorders in dementias and related degenerative diseases
19. Diencephalic and brainstem sleep disorders
20. Sleep and epilepsy