Sleep—Wake Disorders

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xi

   PDF

2. Basic Sleep Research

   1. Prostaglandins and Sleep

      • Osamu Hayaishi

      Pages 1-10

   2. Modelling Sleep Propensity and Sleep Disturbances

      • Hartmut Schulz, Erik Bes, Marc Jobert

      Pages 11-26

3. Circadian Rhythms

   1. Movement, Mood, and Moment in Human Subjects during Temporal Isolation

      • Jürgen Aschoff

      Pages 27-43

   2. Feedback from Sleep—Wake Rhythm onto the Circadian Pacemaker in Humans

      • Ken-ichi Honma, Satoko Hashimoto, Kouji Nakamura, Sato Honma

      Pages 45-52

   3. Treatment of Human Circadian Rhythm Sleep Disorders

      • Tatsuro Ohta, Toshiji Hayakawa, Yuhei Kayukawa, Tamotsu Okada

      Pages 53-60

   4. The Relationship between Sleep—Wake Rhythm and Body Temperature Rhythm in Delayed Sleep Phase Syndrome and Non-24-Hour Sleep—Wake Rhythm

      • Masako Okawa, Makoto Uchiyama, Shigeru Ozaki, Yuichi Kamei, Tatsuro Hayakawa, Jujiro Urata

      Pages 61-66

   5. Some Light on the Controversy about the Effects of the Shift to Daylight Saving Time on Road Accidents

      • Jean Jaques Askenasy, Richard Goldstein, Nadir Askenasy, Virend Somers

      Pages 67-72

4. Insomnias and Narcolepsy

   1. Diagnosis and Treatment of Insomnia

      • Makoto Uchiyama, Shigeru Ozaki

      Pages 73-77

   2. Insomnia in the Aged

      • Naohisa Uchimura, Takashi Hirano, Masaki Mukai, Tetsuro Sakamoto, Yoichi Nakazawa

      Pages 79-90

   3. Does a Chronobiologic Defect Exist in Narcolepsy?

      • Janet Mullington, Roger Broughton

      Pages 91-103

   4. A 10–40 Year Follow-Up Study of Narcolepsy

      • Yutaka Honda

      Pages 105-114

5. Parasomnias

   1. Twin Studies on Parasomnias

      • Ariyuki Hori

      Pages 115-123

   2. REM Sleep Motor Dysfunction in Neurological Diseases

      • Naoko Tachibana

      Pages 125-129

   3. Idiopathic REM Sleep Behavior Disorder in the Aged

      • Y. Sugita, M. Taniguchi, K. Kyotani, A. Mikami, N. Tachibana, K. Terashima et al.

      Pages 131-140

   4. Sleep Deprivation — a Potent Tool in Uncovering Parasomnias?

      • G. Mayer, V. Neissner, P. Schwarzmayr, K. Meier-Ewert

      Pages 141-149

6. Sleep Related Breathing Disorders

   1. Pathogenesis of Hypertension in Patients with Sleep Apnea Syndrome

      • Tetsuo Shimizu, Tetsuo Tashiro, Yuji Takahiashi, Yasuo Hishikawa

      Pages 151-158

   2. Surgical Treatment of Sleep Apnea Syndrome

      • Soichiro Miyazaki, Hiroyuki Tada, Michinori Yokomizo, Yoshiaki Itasaka, Kazuo Ishikawa, Kiyoshi Togawa

      Pages 159-163

   3. The Upper Airway Resistance Syndrome (UARS)

      • Riccardo Stoohs

      Pages 165-174

7. Management for Sleep Disorders

   1. Sleep Facilitating Effects of Vitamin B12

      • Hiroshi Itoh, Motohiro Ozone, Mitsuo Sasaki

      Pages 175-182

Sleep-wake disorders frequently give rise to severe ailments and varied distresses in a great number of people in the world, disturbing their physical and mental activities and their social function. Sleep-wake disorders are now classified into a great number of cate­ gories according to their clinical features and etiological factors. Patients with sleep-wake disorders are taken care of not only by specialists for such disorders but also by general physicians and specialists of different physical and mental disorders. In the recent years, the nature of sleep and sleep-wake disorders have been intensively studied by investiga­ tors belonging to different fields of science including medicine, biology, and psychology in many countries. It is very important for the progress of research that investigators work­ ing in the related fields in different countries meet together and exchange their findings and ideas. The Japanese-German International Symposium on Sleep-Wake Disorders was held on October 9-10th, 1996 in the old, beautiful city of Erfurt (Germany). This symposium was organized by Professor Karlheinz Meier-Ewert (Schwalmstadt, Germany) and Dr. Masako Okawa (Ichikawa, Japan), with support of the German Society of Sleep Research (President at that time, Professor J. H. Peter) and of the Japanese Society of Sleep Research (President at that time, Professor Y. Hishikawa).

• Syndrom
• diagnosis
• psychology
• stress
• syndromes

• Hephata-Klinik, Schwalmstadt-Treysa, Germany

  Karlheinz Meier-Ewert

• Department of Psychophysiology, National Institute of Mental Health, NCNP, Chiba 272, Japan

  Masako Okawa

Policies and ethics