Sleep Medicine

Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung Evaluating the treatment of patients with sleep problems, this book concentrates on the management of disorders. Firstly, as a prerequisite for understanding such an area, aspects of normal sleep are explained. The second section examines the clinical methods of dealing with any abnormalities. Inhaltsverzeichnis Foreward Preface Section 1: 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 sleep apnea syndrome 14: Central sleep apnea and hypoventilation during sleep 15: Parasomnias 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

Product details

• Authors: Michael S. Aldrich, Michael S. (Associate Professor of Neurol Aldrich, Michael S. (Associate Professor of Neurology; Director Aldrich, Aldrich Michael S.
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.01.1999
• EAN: 9780195129571
• ISBN: 978-0-19-512957-1
• No. of pages: 464
• Series: Contemporary Neurology Series; Contemporary Neurology (Hardco; Contemporary Neurology Series; Contemporary Neurology
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > Non-clinical medicine; MEDICAL / Psychiatry / General, SCIENCE / Life Sciences / Biology, MEDICAL / Neurology, Psychiatry, Neurology & clinical neurophysiology, Neurology and clinical neurophysiology, Human biology