Sleep Disorders Medicine
Basic Science, Technical Considerations and Clinical Aspects
Editors: Chokroverty, MD, Sudhansu (Ed.)
Free Preview- This comprehensive text covers basic science, technical and laboratory aspects, and clinical and therapeutic advances in sleep medicine
- Accessible to both beginners and seasoned clinicians
- Written by leaders in the field
Buy this book
- About this book
-
Since publication of the first edition in 1994, the second edition in 1999, and the third edition in 2009, many new advances in sleep medicine have been made and warrant a fourth edition. This comprehensive text features 19 additional chapters and covers basic science, technical and laboratory aspects and clinical and therapeutic advances in sleep medicine for beginners and seasoned practitioners.
With the discovery of new entities, many new techniques and therapies, and evolving basic science understanding of sleep, Sleep Disorders Medicine, Fourth Edition brings old and new knowledge about sleep medicine together succinctly in one place for a deeper understanding of the topic. Neurologists, internists, family physicians, pediatricians, psychiatrists, psychologists, otolaryngologists, dentists, neurosurgeons, neuroscientists, intensivists, as well as those interested in advancing their knowledge in sleep and its disorders, will find this edition to be an invaluable resource to this bourgeoning field. - About the authors
-
Sudhansu Chokroverty, MD,FRCP
Professor of Neuroscience, Seton Hall University, South Orange, NJClinical Professor of Neurology, Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, New Brunswick, NJDirector of Sleep Research & Co-Chair emeritus of NeurologyJFK New Jersey Neuroscience Institute, Edison, NJ, US
- Table of contents (59 chapters)
-
-
Introduction to the Topic
Pages 3-4
-
Overview of Normal Sleep
Pages 5-27
-
Sleep Deprivation and Excessive Daytime Sleepiness
Pages 29-39
-
Effects of Sleep Deprivation and Sleepiness on Society and Driving
Pages 41-53
-
Neurobiology of REM Sleep, NREM Sleep Homeostasis, and Gamma Band Oscillations
Pages 55-77
-
Table of contents (59 chapters)
- Download Preface 1 PDF (59.4 KB)
- Download Sample pages 2 PDF (1.3 MB)
- Download Table of contents PDF (126.6 KB)
Recommended for you
Bibliographic Information
- Bibliographic Information
-
- Book Title
- Sleep Disorders Medicine
- Book Subtitle
- Basic Science, Technical Considerations and Clinical Aspects
- Editors
-
- Sudhansu Chokroverty, MD
- Copyright
- 2017
- Publisher
- Springer-Verlag New York
- Copyright Holder
- Springer Science+Business Media New York
- eBook ISBN
- 978-1-4939-6578-6
- DOI
- 10.1007/978-1-4939-6578-6
- Hardcover ISBN
- 978-1-4939-6576-2
- Softcover ISBN
- 978-1-4939-8240-0
- Edition Number
- 4
- Number of Pages
- XIX, 1269
- Number of Illustrations
- 184 b/w illustrations, 156 illustrations in colour
- Topics
