ABSTRACT
Kenneth Buttoo 601 Harwood Avenue South, Ajax, ON L1S 2J5, Canada
Christian Guilleminault Stanford Sleep Medicine Center, 450 Broadway, St Pavilion C, 2nd Fl MC 5704, Redwood City, CA, USA
Corresponding author: Kenneth Buttoo, E-mail: kbuttoo@hotmail.com
ABSTRACT
Neuroscientific research has expanded our knowledge in sleep medicine. The growth of sleep medicine has the potential to make a significant contribution to legal doctrine and practice if the relationship is properly understood. Sleep medicine has extended into the following areas with legal implications: harm done during partial arousals from sleep; accidents or errors in judgment caused by sleepiness behind the wheel or in the workplace; and disability determinations caused by sleepiness-induced work impairment.
