Sleepiness. Causes, Consequences and Treatment

Description

Written and edited by leading clinicians and researchers in sleep medicine, this is the first book to focus on the causes, consequences and treatment of disorders of excessive sleepiness. Extensive coverage is provided for all known causes of sleepiness, including sleep deprivation, obstructive sleep apnea syndrome, narcolepsy and other hypersomnias of central origin, shift work, and medical and psychiatric disorders. Since many causes of sleepiness are difficult to differentiate from each other, and treatment modalities can vary greatly from one disorder to another, this book helps the clinician to formulate a differential diagnosis that will ultimately lead to the correct diagnosis. Epidemiology, evaluation of the sleepy patient, diagnostic investigations including neuroimaging, subjective and objective testing, cognitive effects of sleepiness, motor vehicle driving issues, medico-legal aspects of sleepiness, and therapy are also discussed in detail. This is an essential resource for neurologists, psychiatrists and sleep specialists.

Features

• Teaches readers how to formulate a differential diagnosis and diagnostic evaluation of sleepiness.
• An extensive therapeutic section explains how to select the appropriate treatment for specific disorders.
• Highlights the impact of sleepiness on quality of life, drawing attention to the need to detect and treat excessive sleepiness.

Table of contents

Preface
Foreword Tom Roth
1. Epidemiology of sleepiness Maurice M. Ohayon
2. Neurochemistry of excessive sleepiness Nishino Seihi and Okuro Masashi
3. Functional neuroimaging of disorders of sleepiness Eric A. Nofzinger
4. The clinical evaluation of patients with excessive sleepiness Imran Ahmed and Michael J. Thorpy
5. Clinical objective measures of excessive sleepiness Michael H. Bonnet and Donna Arand
6. Subjective measures of sleepiness Chris L. Drake
7. Cognitive effects of sleepiness Hans P. Van Dongen
8. Motor vehicle driving and excessive sleepiness Anna Anund and Goran Keckland
9. Medico-legal consequences of excessive sleepiness Charles F. George
10. Sleep deprivation David F. Dinges and Goel Namni
11. Narcolepsy Gert Jan Lammers
12. Idiopathic hypersomnia Michel Billiard
13. Kleine–Levin Syndrome Isabelle Arnulf
14. Menstrual related hypersomnia Fiona C. Baker
15. Sleepiness due to sleep related breathing disorders Jean-Louis Pepin
16. Sleepiness in insomnia Andrew D. Krystal
17. Delayed and advanced sleep phase syndrome and sleepiness Scott S. Campbell and Patricia Murphy
18. Shift worker disorder and sleepiness Torbjorn Akderstedt
19. Sleepiness in health care workers Brian Abaluck and Christopher P. Landrigan
20. Sleepiness and the military Tom Balkin
21. Sleepiness and jet lag James Waterhouse
22. Restless legs syndrome and periodic limb movements Clete A. Kushida
23. Long sleepers Catherine S. Fichten
24. Sleepiness in children Sanjeev Kothare and Joseph Kaleyias
25. Depression and sleepiness Sarah L. Chellappa and Christian Cajochen
26. Ageing, Alzheimer's disease and sleepiness Sonia Ancoli-Israel and Liat Anyalon
27. Parkinson's disease and sleepiness David Rye
28. Myotonic dystrophy and sleepiness Luc Laberge and Yves Dauvilliers
29. Post-traumatic sleepiness Christian R. Baumann
30. Genetic disorders and sleepiness Sona Nevsimalova
31. Brain tumors, infections and other CNA causes of sleepiness Mari Viola-Saltzman and Nate F. Watson
32. Hypothyroidism and other endocrine causes of sleepiness Hideto Shinno
33. Toxic and metabolic causes of sleepiness Fabio Cirignotta and Fabio Pizza
34. Excessive sleepiness due to medications and drugs Paula K. Schweitzer
35. Amphetamines, methylphenidate and excessive sleepiness Una D. McCann
36. Modafinil and armodafinil and excessive sleepiness Renee Monderer and Michael J. Thorpy
37. Sodium oxybate and excessive sleepiness Neil Feldman
38. Caffeine and other alerting agents William D. Killgore
39. H3 antagonists, hypocretin agonists and other novel alerting agents Christian Guilleminault and Meredith Broderick
40. Behavioral and psychiatric treatment of sleepiness Shelby Harris and Michael J. Thorpy
Index.