Principles and practice of sleep medicine

History of sleep physiology and medicine -- Normal human sleep : an overview -- Normal aging -- Daytime sleepiness and alertness -- Sleep deprivation -- Genetics of normal human sleep -- Neural control of sleep in mammals -- Rapid eye movement sleep -- Novel techniques for identifying sleep mechanisms and disorders -- Sleep in animals : a state of adaptive inactivity -- Relevance of sleep physiology for sleep medicine clinicians -- What brain imaging reveals about sleep generation and maintenance -- Cardiovascular physiology and coupling with respiration : central and autonomic regulation -- Cardiovascular physiology : autonomic control in health and in sleep disorders -- Respiratory physiology : central neural control of respiratory neurons and motoneurons during sleep -- Respiratory physiology : understanding the control of ventilation -- Physiology of upper and lower airways -- Respiratory physiology : sleep at high altitudes -- Sleep and host defense -- Endocrine physiology in relation to sleep and sleep disturbances -- Thermoregulation in sleep and hibernation -- Memory processing in relation to sleep -- Sensory and motor processing during sleep and wakefulness -- Opiate action on sleep and breathing -- Pathophysiology of sleep-wake disturbances after traumatic brain injury -- Introduction : genetics and genomics of sleep -- Genetics and genomics of circadian clocks -- Genetics and genomic basis of sleep in simple model organisms -- Genetics and genomic basis of sleep in rodents -- Genetics and genomic basis of sleep in healthy humans -- Genetics and genomic basis of sleep disorders in humans -- Introduction : master circadian clock and master circadian rhythm -- Anatomy of the mammalian circadian system -- Physiology of the mammalian circadian system -- Human circadian timing system and sleep-wake regulation -- Sleep homeostasis and models of sleep regulation -- Circadian rhythms in sleepiness, alertness, and performance -- Central and peripheral circadian clocks -- Circadian dysregulation in mental and physical health -- Circadian disorders of the sleep-wake cycle -- Hypnotic medications : mechanisms of action and pharmacologic effects -- Clinical pharmacology of other drugs used as hypnotics -- Wake-promoting medications : basic mechanisms and pharmacology -- Wake-promoting medications : efficacy and adverse effects -- Drugs that disturb sleep and wakefulness -- Effects of hypnotic drugs on driving performance -- Introduction -- Why we dream -- Dream content : quantitative findings -- Brain correlates of successful dream recall -- Neurobiology of dreaming -- Lucid dreaming -- Nightmares and nightmare function -- Incorporation of waking experiences into dreams -- Dreams and nightmares in posttraumatic stress disorder -- Emotion, motivation, and reward in relation to dreaming -- Approach to the patient with disordered sleep -- Cardinal manifestations of sleep disorders -- Physical examination in sleep medicine -- Use of clinical tools and tests in sleep medicine -- Classification of sleep disorders -- Epidemiology of sleep medicine -- Sleep medicine, public policy, and public health -- Sleep and athletic performance -- Sleep forensics : criminal culpability for sleep-related violence -- Legal obligations of persons who have sleep disorders or who treat or hire them -- Legal aspects of fatigue- and safety-sensitive professions -- Sleep medicine clinical practice and compliance--united states -- Sleep medicine clinical practice and compliance: Europe -- Introduction -- Performance deficits during sleep loss and their operational consequences -- Sleep and performance prediction modeling -- Fatigue risk management systems -- Drowsiness in transportation workers -- Shift work, shift-work disorder, and jet lag -- Sleep problems in first responders and in deployed military personnel -- Sleep, occupational stress, and burnout -- Optimizing shift scheduling -- Obstructive sleep apnea in the workplace -- Insomnia : recent developments and future directions -- Insomnia : epidemiology and risk factors -- Etiology and pathophysiology of insomnia --;Insomnia diagnosis, assessment, and evaluation -- Insomnia and health -- Cognitive behavior therapies for insomnia I : approaches and efficacy -- Psychological and behavioral treatments for insomnia II : implementation and specific populations -- Pharmacologic treatment of insomnia : benzodiazepine receptor agonists -- Pharmacologic treatment of insomnia : other medications -- Narcolepsy : genetics, immunology, and pathophysiology -- Narcolepsy : diagnosis and management -- Idiopathic hypersomnia -- Parkinsonism -- Sleep and stroke -- Sleep and neuromuscular diseases -- Restless legs syndrome and periodic limb movements during sleep -- Alzheimer disease and other dementias -- Epilepsy, sleep, and sleep disorders -- Other neurologic disorders -- Sleep disorders after traumatic brain injury -- Kleine-Levin syndrome -- Parasomnias : overview and approach -- Non-rapid eye movement parasomnias : clinical spectrum, diagnostic features, and management -- Rapid eye movement sleep parasomnias -- Nightmares and dream disturbances -- Other parasomnias -- Sleep-related movement disorders and their unique motor manifestations -- Sleep related breathing disorders : classification -- Sleep breathing disorders : clinical overview -- Central sleep apnea : definitions, pathophysiology, genetics, and epidemiology -- Central sleep apnea : diagnosis and management -- Anatomy and physiology of upper airway obstruction -- Snoring and pathologic upper airway resistance syndromes -- Obstructive sleep apnea : phenotypes and genetics -- Obstructive sleep apnea : clinical features, evaluation, and principles of management -- Positive airway pressure treatment for obstructive sleep apnea -- Medical and device treatment for obstructive sleep apnea : alternative, adjunctive, and complementary therapies -- Obstructive sleep apnea and the central nervous system : neural adaptive processes, cognition, and performance -- Obstructive sleep apnea and metabolic disorders -- Overlap syndromes of sleep and breathing disorders -- Obesity-hypoventilation syndrome -- Obstructive sleep apnea, obesity, and bariatric surgery -- Sleep and breathing at high altitude -- Sleep and cardiovascular disease : present and future -- Sleep-related cardiac risk -- Cardiac arrhythmogenesis during sleep : mechanisms, diagnosis, and therapy -- Cardiovascular effects of sleep-related breathing disorders -- Systemic and pulmonary hypertension in obstructive sleep apnea -- Coronary artery disease and obstructive sleep apnea -- Heart failure -- Sleep and fatigue in cancer patients -- Fibromyalgia and chronic fatigue syndromes -- Endocrine disorders -- Pain and sleep -- Sleep and chronic kidney disease -- Sleep in the critically ill patient -- Anxiety disorders and posttraumatic stress disorder -- Unipolar major depression -- Bipolar disorder -- Schizophrenia -- Medication and substance abuse -- Sleep disturbances in attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder -- Role of dentistry and otolaryngology in sleep medicine -- Oropharyngeal growth and skeletal malformations -- Sleep bruxism : definition, prevalence, classification, etiology, and consequences -- Sleep bruxism : diagnostic considerations -- Orofacial pain and temporomandibular disorders in relation to sleep-disordered breathing and sleep bruxism -- Oral appliances for the treatment of obstructive sleep apnea-hypopnea syndrome and for concomitant sleep bruxism -- Anesthesia in upper airway surgery for obstructive sleep apnea -- Upper airway surgery to treat obstructive sleep-disordered breathing -- Pharmacotherapy, complementary, and alternative medicine for sleep bruxism -- Psychiatric and medical comorbidities and effects of medications in older adults -- Obstructive sleep apnea in older adults -- Insomnia in older adults -- Circadian rhythms in older adults -- Sex differences and menstrual-related changes in sleep and circadian rhythms -- Sleep and sleep disorders associated with pregnancy -- Sleep-disordered breathing in pregnancy -- Postpartum period and early motherhood -- Sleep and menopause -- Polysomnography and beyond -- Sleep stage scoring -- Central nervous system arousals and cyclic alternating patterns -- Neurologic monitoring techniques -- Monitoring techniques for evaluating suspected sleep-related breathing disorders -- Home sleep testing -- Cardiopulmonary coupling sleep spectrograms -- Pulse wave analysis during sleep -- Recording and scoring sleep-related movements -- Evaluating sleepiness -- Chronobiologic monitoring techniques -- Actigraphy.

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