Oxford Textbook of Sleep Disorders

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.

SECTION 1: BASIC SCIENCE; SECTION 2: LABORATORY EVALUATION; SECTION 3: CLINICAL SCIENCE: GENERAL INTRODUCTION; SECTION 4: HYPERSOMNIAS; SECTION 5: INSOMNIAS; SECTION 6: CIRCADIAN RHYTHM DISORDERS; SECTION 7: SLEEP NEUROLOGY; SECTION 8: PARASOMNIAS; SECTION 9: SLEEP AND MEDICAL DISORDERS; SECTION 10: SLEEP AND PSYCHIATRIC DISORDERS; SECTION 11: SLEEP IN CHILDREN, OLDER ADULTS AND WOMEN; SECTION 12: MISCELLANEOUS SLEEP-RELATED TOPICS