Sleep Medicine Essentials

by Teofilo L. Lee-Chiong

• ISBN13: 9780470930465
• ISBN10: 0470930462
• Format: eBook
• Copyright: 2010-08-01
• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell

Summary

Praise for Teofilo L. Lee-Chiong's

Sleep Medicine Essentials

"I highly recommend this book to the clinicians and medical students who would like to sleep well knowing that they have done everything possible to make their patients' sleep restful and healthy."
—–Irina V. Zhdanova, MD, PhD, from a review in The New England Journal of Medicine

"No other publication in the field can begin to compare with the breadth or depth of [this book]."
—–From a review in PsycCRITIQUES

Sleep Medicine Essentials is a concise, handy, practical, and affordable handbook on adult and pediatric sleep medicine. It covers forty topic-focused chapters written by an international panel of contemporary authorities.

It is comprehensive enough for daily reference, with chapters on insomnia, sleep apnea, narcolepsy and other disorders of excessive sleepiness, parasomnias, circadian sleep disorders, sleep in the elderly, sleep in children, sleep among women, and sleep in medical, psychiatric, and neurological disorders. Organized in short chapters for convenience and enhanced readability, it follows the order and topical presentation of the recently instated new sleep medicine board exams, making it a highly effective review for the sleep medicine board.

Sleep Medicine Essentials is the perfect complement to the larger, previously published book, Sleep: A Comprehensive Handbook (Wiley).

Table of Contents

Preface

Contributors

Normal Human Sleep

Neurobiology of Sleep

Physiologic Processes During Sleep

Neuropharmacology of Sleep and Wakefulness

Insomnia: Prevalence and Daytime Consequences

Causes of Insomnia

Evaluation of Insomnia

Pharmacologic Therapy of Insomnia

Nonpharmacologic Therapy of Insomnia

Narcolepsy

Idiopathic Hypersomnia

Posttraumatic and Recurrent Hypersomnia

Evaluation of Excessive Sleepiness

Therapy for Excessive Sleepiness

Adult Sleep-Disordered Breathing

Central Sleep Apnea

Obesity Hypoventilation Syndrome

Cardiovascular Complications of Obstructive Sleep Apnea

Neurocognitive and Functional Impairment in Obstructive Sleep Apnea

Positive Airway Pressure Therapy for Obstructive Sleep Apnea

Oral Devices for Obstructive Sleep Apnea

Circadian Rhythm Sleep Disorders

Jet Lag

Shift Work Sleep Disorder

Therapy of Circadian Sleep Disorders

Disorders of Arousal and Sleep-Related Movement Disorders

REM Sleep Behavior Disorder and REM Sleep-Related Parasomnias

Restless Legs Syndrome and Periodic Limb Movement Disorder

Sleep in Infants and Children

Obstructive Sleep Apnea in Children

The Sleepless Child

The Sleepy Child

Normal Sleep In Aging

Aspects of Women's Sleep

Asthma

Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease and Sleep

Restrictive Thoracic and Neuromuscular Disorders

Congestive Heart Failure

Sleep and the Gastrointestinal Tract

Renal Disease

Endocrine and Metabolic Disorders and Sleep

Immunity and Sleep

Dementia

Neurodegenerative Disorders

Parkinson's Disease

Seizures

Schizophrenia

Mood Disorders

Anxiety Disorders

Alcohol, Alcoholism, and Sleep

Drugs of Abuse and Sleep

Polysomnography

Index

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