Medications and Sleep, An Issue of Sleep Medicine Clinics: Volume 5-4

This issue comprises two parts. The first part examines pharmacology of drug classes and effects on the slee--wake processes. The second part focuses on therapeutics for various sleep disorders. In the first part, basic neuropharmacology of sleep-wake states is discussed. Other articles review hypnotics, allergy and cardiovascular drugs, anti-convulsant drugs, anti-depressant and anti-psychotic drugs, and stimulants. The second part focuses on pharmacology for specific sleep disorders: primary insomnia, co-morbid insomnia, sleep-related breathing disorders, narcolepsy and disorders of daytime sleepiness, movement disroders, parasomnias, and circadian rhythm disorders.

Product details

• Authors: Timothy Roehrs, Roehrs Timothy
• Publisher: Elsevier
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 22.12.2010
• EAN: 9781437724967
• ISBN: 978-1-4377-2496-7
• No. of pages: 734
• Dimensions: 180 mm x 254 mm x 15 mm
• Weight: 650 g
• Illustrations: Illustrations
• Series: The Clinics: Internal Medicine
• Subjects: Guides > Health; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > Non-clinical medicine; Sleep disorders & therapy, Sleep disorders and therapy, MEDICAL / Sleep Medicine