ABSTRACT

Analyzing ground-breaking research, this reference highlights the impact of sleep deprivation on the well-being of the individual and society-presenting current theories on the function of sleep, the effects of sleep deprivation on patients with medical and psychiatric conditions, as well as providing interpretative and methodological results in co

chapter 1|30 pages

Perspectives

chapter 4|17 pages

Total Sleep Deprivation

chapter 6|18 pages

Sleep Fragmentation

chapter 8|10 pages

Shift Work

chapter 9|24 pages

Medications, Drugs of Abuse, and Alcohol

chapter 10|8 pages

Factors Affecting Test Performance

chapter 11|24 pages

Attention and Memory Changes

chapter 12|42 pages

Cortical and Electroencephalographic Changes

chapter 13|28 pages

Physiological and Neurophysiological Changes

chapter 14|26 pages

Metabolic and Endocrine Changes

chapter 15|20 pages

Thermoregulatory Changes

chapter 16|20 pages

Biochemical Changes

chapter 17|28 pages

Immunologic Changes

chapter 18|12 pages

Changes in Gene Expression

chapter 20|6 pages

Mood Changes

chapter 21|10 pages

Antidepressant Effects

chapter 22|10 pages

Personality/Psychopathologic Changes

chapter 24|26 pages

Homeostatic and Circadian Influences