ABSTRACT

Sleep and Psychosomatic Medicine presents an overview of sleep medicine and the management of common sleep disorders seen in a wide variety of practice settings.

Chapters have been written by experts in the field in order to provide physicians of a wide range of interests and abilities with a highly readable exposition of the principal results, including numerous well articulated examples and a rich discussion of applications.

The second edition has been revised to further broaden the scope with the inclusion of several new chapters such as Sleep and Dermatology, Fatigue in Chronic Medical Conditions, Occupational Sleep Medicine, Restless Legs Syndrome and Neuropsychiatric Disorders and Sleep Dysfunction after Traumatic Brain Injury, to name a few.

This second edition of Sleep and Psychosomatic Medicine is an interdisciplinary, scholarly, authoritative, evidence-based review of the field designed to meet the needs of a wide range of health care professionals, including psychiatrists, psychologists, nurses, medical students, and social workers in health care settings.

chapter 1|11 pages

Classification of sleep disorders

ByJ. Thorpy Michael

chapter 2|16 pages

Sleep and gastrointestinal functioning

ByChen Chen-Lin, C. Orr William

chapter 3|12 pages

Sleep and attachment disorders in children

ByBrisch Karl Heinz

chapter 4|16 pages

Fatigue in chronic medical conditions: A psychosomatic perspective

ByM. Zalai Dora, Gottschalk Raymond, Shapiro Colin Michael

chapter 5|28 pages

Occupational sleep medicine: Role of social stressors

ByPereira Diana, Gerhardt Christin, Maria U. Kottwitz, Elfering Achim

chapter 6|10 pages

Restless legs syndrome and neuropsychiatric disorders

ByGupta Ravi, Goel Deepak

chapter 7|13 pages

Narcolepsy and psychosomatic illnesses

ByGoswami Meeta, Butto Kenneth, R. Pandi-Perumal Seithikurippu

chapter 8|17 pages

Sleep and headache disorders

ByC. Rains Jeanetta, J. Steven Poceta, B. Penzien Donald

chapter 9|12 pages

Fibromyalgia and the neurobiology of sleep

ByJ. Wallace Daniel

chapter 10|24 pages

Sleep in chronic fatigue syndrome

ByGotts Zoe Marie, Ellis Jason, Newton Julia

chapter 11|16 pages

Sleep and coronary heart disease

ByBrush Elizabeth, Y. Baba Ridhwan, Shah Neomi

chapter 12|7 pages

Sleep and personality disorders

ByPerogamvros Lampros, C. Robert Cloninger

chapter 13|17 pages

Sleep and Dermatology

ByA. Gupta Madhulika, K. Gupta Aditya, Knapp Katie

chapter 14|9 pages

Neuroimaging of sleep and depression

ByHatch Benjamin, Dang-Vu Thien Thanh

chapter 15|10 pages

Sleep Alterations in Schizophrenia

ByS. Keshavan Matcheri, D. Jindal Ripu

chapter 16|18 pages

Sleep dysfunction after traumatic brain injury

ByMollayeva Tatyana, Shapiro Colin Michael

chapter 17|18 pages

Dreaming in psychiatric patients

ByKramer Milton, Nuhic Zvjezdan

chapter 18|15 pages

Medication effects on sleep

ByF. Pagel James

chapter 19|17 pages

Behavioral intervention for sleep disorders

ByYang Chien-Ming, J. Spielman Arthur

chapter 20|17 pages

Sleep deprivation therapy: A rapid-acting antidepressant

ByC. Wu Joseph, G. Bunney Blynn

chapter 21|19 pages

Non-pharmacological interventions for insomnia in cancer patients

ByK. Gilla, Samara Perez Shapiro, Zeev Rosberger, JOSÉe Savard