Sleepiness: Causes, Consequences and Treatment

by Edited by Michael J. Thorpy , Michel Billiard

• ISBN13: 9780521198868
• ISBN10: 0521198860
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2011-03-14
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Summary

Written and edited by leading clinicians and researchers in sleep medicine, this is the first book to focus on the causes, consequences and treatment of disorders of excessive sleepiness. Extensive coverage is provided for all known causes of sleepiness, including sleep deprivation, obstructive sleep apnea syndrome, narcolepsy and other hypersomnias of central origin, shift work, and medical and psychiatric disorders. Since many causes of sleepiness are difficult to differentiate from each other, and treatment modalities can vary greatly from one disorder to another, this book helps the clinician to formulate a differential diagnosis that will ultimately lead to the correct diagnosis. Epidemiology, evaluation of the sleepy patient, diagnostic investigations including neuroimaging, subjective and objective testing, cognitive effects of sleepiness, motor vehicle driving issues, medico-legal aspects of sleepiness, and therapy are also discussed in detail. This is an essential resource for neurologists, psychiatrists and sleep specialists.

Table of Contents

Preface

Foreword Tom Roth

Epidemiology of sleepiness

Neurochemistry of excessive sleepiness

Functional neuroimaging of disorders of sleepiness

The clinical evaluation of patients with excessive sleepiness

Clinical objective measures of excessive sleepiness Michael

Subjective measures of sleepiness

Cognitive effects of sleepiness

Motor vehicle driving and excessive sleepiness

Medico-legal consequences of excessive sleepiness

Sleep deprivation David

Narcolepsy Gert

Idiopathic hypersomnia

Kleine-Levin Syndrome

Menstrual related hypersomnia

Sleepiness due to sleep related breathing disorders

Sleepiness in insomnia

Delayed and advanced sleep phase syndrome and sleepiness Scott

Shift worker disorder and sleepiness

Sleepiness in health care workers

Sleepiness and the military

Sleepiness and jet lag

Restless legs syndrome and periodic limb movements

Long sleepers

Sleepiness in children

Depression and sleepiness Sarah

Ageing, Alzheimer's disease and sleepiness

Parkinson's disease and sleepiness

Myotonic dystrophy and sleepiness

Post-traumatic sleepiness

Genetic disorders and sleepiness

Brain tumors, infections and other CNA causes of sleepiness

Hypothyroidism and other endocrine causes of sleepiness

Toxic and metabolic causes of sleepiness

Excessive sleepiness due to medications and drugs

Amphetamines, methylphenidate and excessive sleepiness

Modafinil and armodafinil and excessive sleepiness

Sodium oxybate and excessive sleepiness

Caffeine and other alerting agents

H3 antagonists, hypocretin agonists and other novel alerting agents

Behavioral and psychiatric treatment of sleepiness

Index

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