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Informationen zum Autor Teofilo L. Lee-Chiong , M.D. is Head, Section of Sleep Medicine and Associate Professor, Department of Medicine, National Jewish Medical and Research Center in Denver. He has served as Associate Professor in the Department of Medicine at University of Arkansas College of Medicine, where he was also awarded the Red Sash Award for Excellence in Medical Education (2000). He performed his residency and fellowship in internal medicine and pulmonary & critical care at Yale University School of Medicine, followed by a post-fellowship in sleep medicine at Dartmouth College School of Medicine. Klappentext Praise for Teofilo L. Lee-Chiong'sSleep Medicine Essentials"I highly recommend this book to the clinicians and medical students who would like to sleep well knowing that they have done everything possible to make their patients' sleep restful and healthy."--Irina V. Zhdanova, MD, PhD, from a review in The New England Journal of Medicine"No other publication in the field can begin to compare with the breadth or depth of [this book]."--From a review in PsycCRITIQUESSleep Medicine Essentials is a concise, handy, practical, and affordable handbook on adult and pediatric sleep medicine. It covers forty topic-focused chapters written by an international panel of contemporary authorities.It is comprehensive enough for daily reference, with chapters on insomnia, sleep apnea, narcolepsy and other disorders of excessive sleepiness, parasomnias, circadian sleep disorders, sleep in the elderly, sleep in children, sleep among women, and sleep in medical, psychiatric, and neurological disorders. Organized in short chapters for convenience and enhanced readability, it follows the order and topical presentation of the recently instated new sleep medicine board exams, making it a highly effective review for the sleep medicine board.Sleep Medicine Essentials is the perfect complement to the larger, previously published book, Sleep: A Comprehensive Handbook (Wiley). Zusammenfassung Based on the highly acclaimed Sleep: A Comprehensive Handbook , this is a concise, convenient, practical, and affordable handbook on sleep medicine. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface. Contributors. 1. Normal Human Sleep ( Anil Natesan Rama, S. Charles Cho, and Clete A. Kushida ). 2. Neurobiology of Sleep ( Gerald A. Marks ). 3. Physiologic Processes During Sleep ( Leon Rosenthal ). 4. Neuropharmacology of Sleep and Wakefulness ( Edgar Garcia-Rill, Tiffany Wallace-Huitt, Mark Mennemeier, Amanda Charlesworth, David Heister, Meijun Ye, and Charlotte Yates ). 5. Insomnia: Prevalence and Daytime Consequences ( W. David Brown ). 6. Causes of Insomnia ( Edward J. Stepanski ). 7. Evaluation of Insomnia ( Douglas E. Moul and Daniel J. Buysse ). 8. Pharmacologic Therapy of Insomnia ( Teofilo Lee-Chiong and Michael Sateia ). 9. Nonpharmacologic Therapy of Insomnia ( Melanie K. Means and Jack D. Edinger ). 10. Narcolepsy ( Rafael Pelayo and Maria Cecilia Lopes ). 11. Idiopathic Hypersomnia ( Stephen N. Brooks ). 12. Posttraumatic and Recurrent Hypersomnia ( Carolyn M. D'Ambrosio and Joshua Baron ). 13. Evaluation of Excessive Sleepiness ( Merrill S. Wise ). 14. Therapy for Excessive Sleepiness ( Max Hirshkowitz ). 15. Adult Sleep-Disordered Breathing ( Reena Mehra and Kingman P. Strohl ). 16. Central Sleep Apnea ( Shahrokh Javaheri ). 17. Obesity Hypoventilation Syndrome ( John G. Park ). 18. Cardiovascular Complications of Obstructive Sleep Apnea ( Peter Y. Hahn, Lyle J. Olson, and Virend K. Somers ). 19. Neurocognitive and Functional Impairment in Obstructive Sleep Apnea ( W. David Brown ). 20. Positive Airway Pressure Therapy for Obstructive Sleep Apnea ( Max Hirshkowitz, ...
