Table of Contents

Classification of Sleep Disorders. Sleep and Gastrointestinal Functioning. Sleep and Attachment Disorders in Children. Fatigue in Chronic Medical Conditions: A Psychosomatic Perspective. Occupational Sleep Medicine: Role of Social Stressors. Restless Leg Syndrome and Neuropsychiatric Disorders. Narcolepsy and Psychosomatic Illnesses. Sleep and Headache Disorders. Fibromyalgia and the Neurobiology of Sleep. Sleep in Chronic Fatigue Syndrome. Sleep and Coronary Heart Disease. Sleep and Personality Disorders. Sleep and Dermatology. Neuroimaging of Sleep and Depression. Sleep Alterations in Schizophrenia. Sleep Dysfunction after Traumatic Brain Injury. Dreaming in Psychiatric Patients.Medication Effects on Sleep.Behavioral Intervention for Sleep Disorders. Sleep Deprivation Therapy: A Rapid-Acting Antidepressant. Non-Pharmacological Interventions for Insomnia in Cancer Patients.

About the Author

Edited by

S.R. Pandi-Perumal, president and CEO, Somnogen Canada Inc., Toronto, Canada

Meera Narasimhan, University of South Carolina School of Medicine, Columbia, USA

Milton Kramer, emeritus professor of psychiatry, University of Cincinnati, USA