Atlas of Clinical Sleep Medicine

Easy to read and richly illustrated, Atlas of Clinical Sleep Medicine, 3rd Edition, provides the tools you need to accurately diagnose and treat the full range of adult and pediatric sleep disorders. Dr. Meir H. Kryger and a team of expert contributing authors detail the physiologic, clinical, morphologic, and investigational aspects of the sleep disorders you encounter in everyday practice-enhanced by high-quality images throughout. This highly regarded, award-winning atlas is an ideal resource for sleep practitioners and technicians in the lab, as well as an effective review for certification and recertification.

• Features a thoroughly illustrated, reader-friendly format that highlights key details, helping you interpret the visual manifestations of your patients’ sleep disorders so you can manage them most effectively
• Contains the most up-to-date drug therapy with information about the latest drugs available as well as those in clinical trials
• Provides greater coverage of pediatric and adolescent disorders, including behavioral insomnia, new medication options, and multiple sleep latency testing (MSLT) specific to children
• Includes current AASM scoring guidelines and diagnostic criteria
• Presents correlations between normal and abnormal sleep relative to other health issues such as stroke and heart failure
• Illustrates the physiology of sleep with full-color images (many are new!) and correlates the physiology with the relevant findings
• Provides numerous resources online, including more than 80 patient interview and sleep lab videos and 200+ polysomnogram fragments
• An eBook version is included with purchase. The eBook allows you to access all of the text, figures and references, with the ability to search, customize your content, make notes and highlights, and have content read aloud

List of contents

Section 1: Sleep in Visual Arts and Literature
1. Sleep in Art and Literature

Section 2: History of Sleep Medicine and Physiology
2. History of Sleep Medicine and Physiology

Section 3: The Biology of Sleep
3. Sleep Mechanisms
4. Localization and Neurochemistry of Sleep-Wake Physiology and Pathophysiology
5. Circadian Rhythms Regulation
6. Physiologic Regulation in Sleep
7. Cytokines, Host Defense, and Sleep
8. Control of Breathing
9. Central and Autonomic Regulation in Cardiovascular Physiology
10. Interactive Regulation of Sleep and Feeding
11. Endocrine Physiology

Section 4: Normal Sleep and Its Variants
12. Sleep in Mammals
13. Normal Sleep in Humans
14. Sleep Restriction
15. Sleep and Athletic Performance
16. Dreaming in Normal and Disrupted Sleep

Section 5: Pharmacology
17. Pharmacology

Section 6: Impact, Presentation, and Diagnosis
18. Impact, Presentation, and Diagnostic Considerations

Section 7: Circadian System Disorders
19. Circadian Rhythm Disorders
20. Circadian Desynchrony and Health

Section 8: Insomnia
21. Insomnia

Section 9: Neurologic Disorders
22. Central Disorders of Hypersomnolence
23. Movement Disorders in Sleep
24. Sleep and Epilepsy
25. Cerebrovascular Disease and Sleep
26. Sleep and Other Neurologic Diseases
27. Sleep and Neuromuscular Disease

Section 10: Parasomnias
28. Parasomnias

Section 11: Sleep Breathing Disorders
29. Examination of the Patient With Suspected Sleep Breathing Disorders
30. Sleep Apnea in the Adolescent and Adult
31. Sleep Breathing Disorders in Children
32. Respiratory Diseases and the Overlap Syndromes

Section 12: Other Medical and Psychiatric Disorders
33. Cardiovascular Diseases
34. Thyroid Disease
35. Diseases of the Pituitary Gland
36. Gastrointestinal Disorders
37. Diabetes Mellitus
38. Sleep Disorders in Chronic Kidney Disease
39. Sleep and Psychiatric Disease
40. Sleep and Ophthalmologic Disorders
41. Sleep and Pain
42. COVID-19 and Sleep

Section 13: Women’s Health
43. The Menstrual Cycle
44. Pregnancy and Postpartum
45. Midlife Transition and Menopause
46. Fibromyalgia and Chronic Fatigue Syndrome

Section 14: Diagnostic Assessment Methods in Adults
47. Polysomnography and Home Sleep Test Assessment Methods in Adults

Section 15: Media Galleries
48. Gallery of Polysomnographic Recordings
49. Gallery of Patient Interview Videos
50. Gallery of Sleep Laboratory Video Findings

Product details

• Authors: Meir H. Kryger, Meir H. (Professor Kryger, Kryger Meir H.
• Publisher: Elsevier
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 17.04.2025
• EAN: 9780323654036
• ISBN: 978-0-323-65403-6
• Dimensions: 216 mm x 276 mm x 25 mm
• Weight: 1640 g
• Illustrations: 600 illustrations (500 in full color), Illustrationen, nicht spezifiziert
• Subjects: Guides > Health; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > Non-clinical medicine; Sleep disorders & therapy, Sleep disorders and therapy, MEDICAL / Sleep Medicine