Sleep Disorders, An Issue of Neurologic Clinics
By Robert W. Fayle, MD
240 pages
Copyright 2005
Hardcover
Table of Contents
1. History of Sleep Medicine, A Personal Perspective (Dement) 2. The Purpose of Sleep (Siegel) 3. The Neurophysiology of Sleep and Arousal (Thorpy) 4. Hypocretin and Arousal (Mignot) 5. Clinical and Technologic Approaches to Sleep Evaluation (Hirshkowitz) 6. Narcolepsy and Other Hypersomnias (Black) 7. Sleep-Disordered Breathing (Iber) 8. Sleep Disordered Breathing and Cerebrovascular Disease (Lavie) 9. REM and NREM Parasomnias (Mahowald and Schneck) 10. Sleep and Epilepsy (Malow) 11. Restless Legs Syndrome and Periodic Limb Movements of Sleep (Ondo) 12. Pharmacologic and Non-Pharmacologic Treatment of Insomnia (Becker) 13. Sleep and Degenerative Neurological Disorders (Chokroverty) 14. Sleep and GI Function (Orr)