basic science, technical considerations, and clinical aspects /
First Statement of Responsibility
edited by Sudhansu Chokroverty ; with 39 contributing authors.
.PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC
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Boston :
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Butterworth-Heinemann,
Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.
c1994.
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
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xii, 504 p. :
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ill. ;
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27 cm.
INTERNAL BIBLIOGRAPHIES/INDEXES NOTE
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
CONTENTS NOTE
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(cont) Positive airway pressure in the treatment of sleep-related breathing disorders / Mark H. Sanders and Ronald A. Stiller -- Glossary of terms used in sleep disorders medicine.
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(cont) Techniques for the assessment of sleep-related erections / Max Hirshkowitz and Ismet Karacan -- Clinical aspects -- Approach to a patient with sleep complaints / Sudhansu Chokroverty -- Classification of sleep disorders / Michael J. Thorpy -- Obstructive sleep apnea syndrome / Mindy B. Cetel and Christian Gulleminault -- Insomnia / James K. Walsh, Paul G. Hartman and James P. Kowall -- Narcolepsy / Christian Guilleminault -- Motor functions and dysfunctions of sleep / Wayne E. Hening, Arthur S. Walters and Sudhansu Chokroverty -- Sleep, breathing and neurological disorders / Sudhansu Chokroverty -- Sleep disorders in psychiatric illness / Virgil Wooten -- Sleep and other medical disorders / Sudhansu Chokroverty -- Circadian rhythm disorders / Kevin A. O'Connor, Mark W. Mahowald and Milton G. Ettinger -- Parasomnias / Roger J. Broughton -- Sleep disorders in elderly persons / Sudhansu Chokroverty -- Sleep disorders of childhood / Richard Ferber -- Sleep and epilepsy / Sudhansu Chokroverty.
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Basic aspects of sleep -- Overview of sleep / Sudhansu Chokroverty -- Neurophysiology of sleep: basic mechanisms underlying control of wakefulness and sleep / Robert W. McCarley -- Biochemical pharmacology of sleep / Rafael De Jesus Cabeza ... [et al.] -- Physiologic changes in sleep / Sudhansu Chokroverty -- Technical considerations -- Polysomnographic technique: an overview / Sharon A. Keenan -- Electroencephalography, electromyography and electroculography: general principles and basic technology / Thaddeus Walczak and Sudhansu Chokroverty -- Electrocardiographic recognition of cardiac arrhythmias / Daniel M. Shindler and John B. Kostis -- Respiration and respiratory function: technique of recording and evaluation / Richard A. Parisi and Teodoro V. Santiago -- Measurement of sleepiness/alertness: multiple sleep latency test / Thomas Roth, Timothy Roehrs and Leon Rosenthal -- Ambulatory cassette polysomnography / W. Vaughn McCall, Gail R. Marsh and C. William Erwin -- Sleep scoring technique / Merrill M. Mitler, J. Steven Poceta and Barbara G. Bigby.