Table of Contents

Section 1: Basic science
1: James T. McKenna and Robert W. McCarley: Introduction to basic science
2: Sudhansu Chokroverty and Sushanth Bhat: An overview of sleep medicine: History, definition, sleep patterns and architecture
3: Pierre-Hervé Luppi, Olivier Clément, Christelle Peyron, and Patrice Fort: Neurobiology of REM sleep
4: Barbara E. Jones: Neuro-anatomical, -chemical and -physiological bases of waking and sleeping
5: Alexandra Sousek and Mehdi Tafti: The genetics of sleep
6: Sudhansu Chokroverty and Sushanth Bhat: Physiological changes in sleep
Section 2: Laboratory evaluation
7: Nic Butkow: Polysomnography: Technique and indications
8: Marco De Los Santos and Max Hirshkowitz: Scoring of sleep stages, breathing, and arousals
9: Fabio Pizza and Carlo Cipolli: Other sleep laboratory procedures (MSLT, MWT, Actigraphy)
10: Michela Figorilli, Monica Puligheddu, and Raffaele Ferri: Scoring guidelines (Sleep-related movements)
11: Pierre Maquet and Julien Fanielle: Neuroimaging in normal sleep and sleep disorders
Section 3: Clinical science: General introduction
12: Jennifer-Ann Liebenthal and Christian Guilleminault: Clinical sleep medicine: an introduction
13: Michael Thorpy: Classification of sleep disorders
Section 4: Hypersomnias
14: Gert Jan Lammers: Narcolepsy with cataplexy
15: Michel Billiard and Yves Dauvilliers: Idiopathic hypersomnia, Kleine-Levin syndrome and symptomatic hypersomnias
16: Cristina Embid and Josep M. Montserrat: Obstructive sleep apnea and upper airway resistance syndrome
17: Dirk Pevernagie: Positive airway pressure therapy
18: Mithri R. Junna, Bernardo J. Selim, and Timothy I. Morgenthaler: Central sleep apnea and hypoventilation syndromes
Section 5: Insomnias
19: Simon D. Kyle and Colin A. Espie: Insomnias: Classification, evaluation and pathophysiology
20: Elisabeth Hertenstein, Christoph Nissen, and Dieter Riemann: Pharmacologic and non-pharmacologic treatments of insomnia
Section 6: Circadian rhythm disorders
21: Vivek Pillai and Christopher L. Drake: Shift work sleep disorder and jet lag
22: Guy Warman and Josephine Arendt: Advanced, delayed, free-running and irregular sleep-wake rhythm disorders
Section 7: Sleep neurology
23: Alessandro Gradassi and Federica Provini: Sleep related movement disorders
24: Luigi Ferini-Strambi and Sara Marelli: Restless legs syndrome
25: Elisaveta Sokolov and K. Ray Chaudhuri: An overview of sleep dysfunction in Parkinson's disease
26: Raffaele Manni and Michele Terzaghi: Sleep disorders in neurodegenerative diseases other than Parkinson's disease and multiple system atrophy
27: Mark Eric Dyken, Kyoung Bin Im, George B. Richerson, and Deborah C. Lin-Dyken: Sleep and stroke
28: Lino Nobili, Paola Proserpio, Steve Gibbs, and Giuseppe Plazzi: Sleep and epilepsy
29: Giovanna Calandra-Buonaura and Pietro Cortelli: Autonomic dysfunction and sleep disorders
30: Katerina Sajgalikova, Erik K. St. Louis, and Peter Gay: Neuromuscular disorders and sleep
31: Pradeep Sahota and Niranjan N. Singh: Sleep in other neurological disorders - Headache
32: Christian R. Baumann: Sleep after traumatic brain injury
33: Luigi Ferini-Strambi and Sara Marelli: Sleep disorders in multiple sclerosis
34: Mark Solms: Sleep and dreams: A clinical neurological perspective
35: Paul J. Reading: Neurological diseases and their effects on the sleep-wake cycle
36: Sushanth Bhat and Sudhansu Chokroverty: Clinical and neurophysiological aspects of fatigue
37: Molly E. Zimmerman and Mark S. Aloia: Role of positive pressure therapy on sleep-disordered breathing and cognition in the elderly
Section 8: Parasomnias
38: Ronald B. Postuma: REM sleep behaviour disorder
39: Caterina Ferri, Maria Turchese Caletti, and Federica Provini: Non-REM and other parasomnias
Section 9: Sleep and medical disorders
40: Winfried J. Randerath and Shahrokh Javaheri: Sleep and heart
41: Sandrine H. Launois and Patrick Lévy: Pulmonary disorders and sleep
42: William C. Orr: Gastrointestinal functioning during sleep
43: Giorgos K. Sakkas and Christoforos D. Giannaki: Sleep in chronic renal insufficiency
44: Axel Steiger: Sleep in endocrine disorders
45: Gerald Weinhouse: Sleep in other medical disorders
46: Gilles J. Lavigne, Samar Khoury, Caroline Arbour, and Nadia Gosselin: Sleep and pain: Interactions and syndromes
Section 10: Sleep and psychiatric disorders
47: Susan Mackie and John W. Winkelman: Depression and anxiety disorders
48: Sara Dallaspezia and Francesco Benedetti: Sleep in other psychiatric disorders
Section 11: Sleep in children, older adults and women
49: Suresh Kotagal and Julie M. Baughn: Childhood sleep-wake disorders
50: Rosalia Silvestri: Sleep in older adults
51: Milena Pavlova: Sleep and its disorders in women
Section 12: Miscellaneous sleep-related topics
52: Michel A. Cramer Bornemann and Mark R. Pressman: Violent parasomnias and sleep forensics
53: Sergio Garbarino: Morbidity, mortality, societal impact and accident in sleep disorders
54: Yvonne Nussbaumer-Ochsner and Konrad E. Bloch: Sleep in high altitude and space travel

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About the Author

Sudhansu Chokroverty is Professor and Director of Sleep Research at the JFK Neuroscience Institute, Edison, NJ, USA; Professor of Neuroscience at Seton Hall University, South Orange, NJ, USA; and Clinical Professor of Neurology at Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, New Brunswick, NJ, USA. His research interests include Blink reflex excitability in Restless legs Syndrome and narcolepsy-cataplexy, Neurophysiologic investigation of myoclonus and tremor,
Startle reflex study in normals and RLS patients, PLMS actigraphic study correlating with overnight PSG study, Abnormal motor activities during REM sleep, Transient phenomena at sleep onset: A clinical and
PSG study, Cyclic alternating pattern in the PSG, sleep apnea and CPAP titration, and Actigraphic study in insomnia. Luigi Ferini-Strambi is Clinical Group Leader at San Raffaele Scientific Institute, Department of Clinical Neurosciences, Sleep Disorders Center, Milan, Italy; and Associate Professor of Psychology at Vita-Salute San Raffaele University, Milan, Italy. His research interests in the field of sleep disorders include insomnia, hypersomnia, movement disorders, and sleep-related
behaviour.

Reviews

"In short, this is a complete manual to set up a sleep clinic. This is a unique text for anyone looking to broaden their practice for the benefit of their patients, or those who wish to establish badly needed new sleep services." -- IDr Tim Yates, BMA Book Awards Reviewer 2018