Principles and Practice of Sleep Medicine

This book has been thoroughly revised with 45 new chapters on the knowledge base of sleep medicine. The first half of the book reviews the basic sciences related to sleep. The remainder of the book is followed by a review of sleep pathology in adults. This book covers the major topics of sleep apnea: narcolepsy, movement disorders, psychiatric disorders and insomnia. The methodology used in the sleep laboratory is also reviewed. New nomenclature has been used throughout.Covers the entire field of adult sleep medicine in one compact resource.Broadly expanded to include new information on psychiatry, circadian rhythms, cardiovascular diseases, and sleep apnea treatment and diagnosis.Basic sleep science review section serves as a perfect introduction for students and post-doctoral fellows.State of the art chapters are written by the worlds most prominent sleep specialists.Chapters are profusely illustrated, offering examples of classical findings in sleep medicine.

• Author
• Meir H. Kryger, Thomas Roth, William C. Dement

• Format
• hardcover

• Pages
• 1336

• Publisher
• Saunders

• Language
• english

• ISBN
• 9780721676708

• Genres
• psychology

• Release date
• 2000