Sleep Medicine Essentials is a concise, handy, practical, and affordable handbook on adult and pediatric sleep medicine.

Sleep Medicine Essentials covers forty topic-focused chapters written by an international panel of contemporary authorities.

Covers a range of topics including:

• insomnia
• sleep apnea
• narcolepsy
• parasomnias
• circadian sleep disorders
• sleep in the elderly
• sleep in children
• sleep among women
• sleep in the medical, psychiatric, and neurological disorders

Sleep Medicine Essentials serves as an effective Sleep Medicine board examination review, and every chapter includes sample boards -style questions for test preparation and practice.

Contents

1. Normal Human Sleep
2. Neurobiology of Sleep
3. Physiologic Processes During Sleep
4. Neuropharmacology of Sleep and Wakefulness
5. Insomnia: Prevalence and Daytime Consequences
6. Causes of Insomnia
7. Evaluation of Insomnia
8. Pharmacologic Therapy of Insomnia
9. Nonpharmacologic Therapy of Insomnia
10. Narcolepsy
11. Idiopathic Hypersomnia
12. Posttraumatic and Recurrent Hypersomnia
13. Evaluation of Excessive Sleepiness
14. Therapy for Excessive Sleepiness
15. Adult Sleep-Disordered Breathing
16. Central Sleep Apnea
17. Obesity Hypoventilation Syndrome
18. Cardiovascular Complications of Obstructive Sleep Apnea
19. Neurocognitive and Functional Impairment in Obstructive Sleep Apnea
20. Positive Airway Pressure Therapy for Obstructive Sleep Apnea
21. Oral Devices for Obstructive Sleep Apnea
22. Circadian Rhythm Sleep Disorders
23. Jet Lag
24. Shift Work Sleep Disorder
25. Therapy of Circadian Sleep Disorders
26. Disorders of Arousal and Sleep-Related Movement Disorders
27. REM Sleep Behavior Disorder and REM Sleep-Related Parasomnias
28. Restless Legs Syndrome and Periodic Limb Movement Disorder
29. Sleep in Infants and Children
30. Obstructive Sleep Apnea in Children
31. The Sleepless Child
32. The Sleepy Child
33. Normal Sleep In Aging
34. Aspects of Women's Sleep
35. Asthma
36. Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease and Sleep
37. Restrictive Thoracic and Neuromuscular Disorders
38. Congestive Heart Failure
39. Sleep and the Gastrointestinal Tract
40. Renal Disease
41. Endocrine and Metabolic Disorders and Sleep
42. Immunity and Sleep
43. Dementia
44. Neurodegenerative Disorders
45. Parkinson's Disease
46. Seizures
47. Schizophrenia
48. Mood Disorders
49. Anxiety Disorders
50. Alcohol, Alcoholism, and Sleep
51. Drugs of Abuse and Sleep
52. Polysomnography

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