Sleep and Quality of Life in Clinical Medicine

1. Front Matter

   Pages I-XVII

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2. Quality of Life in Clinical Medicine

   • Kathleen W. Wyrwich, Cynthia R. Gross

   Pages 1-9

3. Patient Versus Proxy Ratings of Quality of Life

   • Naresh M. Punjabi

   Pages 11-17

4. Criteria for Evaluating Quality of Life Measurement Tools

   • Cynthia R. Gross, Kathleen W. Wyrwich

   Pages 19-28

5. Human Sleep

   • Jaime M. Monti, Daniel Monti

   Pages 29-36

6. Sleep Disorders

   • Geneviève St-Jean, Célyne H. Bastien

   Pages 37-45

7. Sleep and Quality of Life in Insomnia

   • Damien Leger

   Pages 47-51

8. Effects of Hypnotics on Sleep and Quality of Life in Insomnia

   • Chris Alford, Sue Wilson

   Pages 53-66

9. Melatonin and Quality of Life

   • Venkataramanujan Srinivasan, S. R. Pandi-Perumal, Warren Spence, Daniel P. Cardinali, Marcel G. Smits

   Pages 67-77

10. Sleep and Quality of Life in Sleep Apnea

    • Amy D. Atkeson, Robert C. Basner

    Pages 79-91

11. Sleep and Quality of Life in Narcolepsy

    • Meeta Goswami

    Pages 93-99

12. Sleep and Quality of Life in Restless Legs Syndrome

    • Marco Zucconi, Mauro Manconi

    Pages 101-106

13. Quality of Life in Excessive Daytime Sleepiness and Hypersomnia

    • Henry J. Moller, Shirley Lam

    Pages 107-118

14. Sleep and Quality of Life in REM Sleep Parasomnia

    • Luigi Ferini-Strambi, Maria Livia Fantini

    Pages 119-126

15. Sleep and Quality of Life in Non-REM-Related Parasomnias

    • Mark R. Pressman

    Pages 127-130

16. Sleep and Quality of Life in Older People

    • Alia Khan-Hudson, Cathy A. Alessi

    Pages 131-138

17. Sleep and Quality of Life in Children

    • Ron B. Mitchell, James Kelly

    Pages 139-145

18. Sleep and Quality of Life in Traumatic Brain Injury and Guillain–Barré Syndrome

    • Sheldon Kapen

    Pages 147-154

19. Sleep and Quality of Life in Alzheimer’s Disease and the Dementias

    • Doug Neef, David Larson

    Pages 155-160

20. Sleep and Quality of Life in Headache and Migraine

    • Jeanetta C. Rains, Donald B. Penzien

    Pages 161-173

Had you looked up “quality of life” (QOL) in Index Medicus premature deaths. Procedures ranging from joint replacement priorto1975,yoursearchwouldhavebeenfruitless. Although and coronary bypass surgery to treatments for arthritis and thetermwasmostlikely?rstintroducedbyKarnofskyin1949 sleep disturbances do little to increase longevity; rather, they within the realm of chemotherapy for cancer patients (1), it make it easier for the person to function in his or her daily was not used as a key word in Index Medicus for another 26 life. A cynical perspective would say that clinicians are now interested in QOL to justify their existence, as interventions years. Since that time, there has been an exponential growth in such as hip replacement cannot be rationalized on the basis the number of articles about QOL. Figure 1 shows the number of preserving lives. However, as people live longer, they do of unique articles cited each year in Medline and PsycInfo: 7 in fact become more susceptible to disorders and conditions in 1970, 331 in 1980, not quite 1800 in 1990, slightly over that interfere with activities of daily living and consequently 6000 in 2000, and nearly 11,000 in 2005. Once the domain of decrease their QOL. mainly medicine and psychology, QOL has found its way into A second factor is the realization that QOL is not syno- every aspect of health care, including physiotherapy, oc- mous with the absence of symptoms: patients with serious pational therapy, social work, nursing, and others.

• Alzheimer
• Parkinson
• alzheimer's disease
• chronic pain
• depression
• heart
• medicine
• migraine
• obesity
• pain
• quality of life
• schizophrenia
• stress
• surgery
• trauma

From the reviews:

"This book is targeted to healthcare professionals who treat patients with sleep disorders and are concerned about the patients’ overall well-being and how the disorders impact their quality of life. It also is an excellent resource for students and researchers in the field of sleep medicine who wish to examine the impact of sleep on quality of life. … is a comprehensive and well organized book on the important issue of sleep and quality of life." (Isabel L. Crisostomo, Doody’s Review Service, August, 2008)

"The book provide an overview of the relationship between sleep and quality of life. … Most chapters share a specified format, beginning with a summary and lists of keywords and learning objectives and closing with conclusions and a review of problems … . This format provides a consistency that enhances the usefulness of the book. … The primary readership should be sleep clinicians, researchers, and medical and postdoctoral students. The book’s strengths include an easily readable style, with little medical jargon." (Clete A. Kushida, New England Journal of Medicine, October, 2008)

"Sleep and Quality of Life in Clinical Medicine encompasses 53 chapters closely looking at sleep disturbances induced by specific sleep disorders such as sleep apnea, narcolepsy … . useful for readers who know little about sleep medicine. … covers what the readers has always and never wanted to know about sleep, its associated medical disorders, and quality of life. The book likewise includes a useful bibliography with references dated … as well as an 18-page index, both of which are helpful when navigating through chapters." (Michelle Cao, Journal of the American Medical Association, November, 2008)

• Section Psychopharmacology Utrecht Institute for Pharmaceutical Sciences, Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands

  Joris C. Verster

• Divison of Clinical Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics Department of Medicine, College of Physicians and Surgeons of Columbia University, New York, USA

  S. R. Pandi-Perumal

• Department of Psychiatry, Kunin-Lunenfeld Applied Research Unit (KLARU), Toronto, Canada

  David L. Streiner

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