Sleep and Psychosomatic Medicine

Description

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.

Features

• Provides a comprehensive summary of the basic, translational, and clinical applications within the interface of sleep and psychosomatic medicine
• Includes contributions from leading experts in the various subfields of sleep medicine and neuropsychiatry
• Incorporates sections on special nursing considerations, common co-morbid conditions, points to remember, and information for patient education
• Covers topics such as CBT, sleep hygiene, common sleep complaints, and common techniques that are useful for residents and fellows
• Updates clinicians on current and emerging treatment options for sleep disturbances in relation to a wide variety of co-morbid medical conditions

Table of Contents

Classification of Sleep Disorders
Michael J. Thorpy

Sleep and Gastrointestinal Functioning 
Chen-Lin Chen and William C. Orr

Sleep and Attachment Disorders in Children 
Karl Heinz Brisch

Fatigue in Chronic Medical Conditions: A Psychosomatic Perspective 
Dora M. Zalai, Raymond Gottschalk, and Colin Michael Shapiro

Occupational Sleep Medicine: Role of Social Stressors 
Diana Pereira, Christin Gerhardt, Maria U. Kottwitz, and Achim Elfering

Restless Leg Syndrome and Neuropsychiatric Disorders 
Ravi Gupta and Deepak Goel

Narcolepsy and Psychosomatic Illnesses 
Meeta Goswami, Kenneth Butto, and Seithikurippu R. Pandi-Perumal

Sleep and Headache Disorders 
Jeanetta C. Rains, J. Steven Poceta, and Donald B. Penzien

Fibromyalgia and the Neurobiology of Sleep 
Daniel J. Wallace

Sleepin Chronic Fatigue Syndrome 
Zoe Marie Gotts, Jason Ellis, and Julia Newton

Sleep and Coronary Heart Disease 
Elizabeth Brush, Ridhwan Y. Baba, and Neomi Shah

Sleep and Personality Disorders 
Lampros Perogamvrosand C. Robert Cloninger

Sleep and Dermatology 
Madhulika A. Gupta, Aditya K. Gupta, and Katie Knapp

Neuroimaging of Sleep and Depression 
Benjamin Hatch and Thien Thanh Dang-Vu

Sleep Alterations in Schizophrenia 
Matcheri S. Keshavan and Ripu D. Jindal

Sleep Dysfunction after Traumatic Brain Injury 
Tatyana Mollayevaand Colin Michael Shapiro

Dreaming in Psychiatric Patients 
Milton Kramer and Zvjezdan Nuhic

Medication Effects on Sleep 
James F. Pagel

Behavioral Intervention for Sleep Disorders 
Chien-Ming Yang and Arthur J. Spielman

Sleep Deprivation Therapy: ARapid-Acting Antidepressant 
Joseph C. Wu and Blynn G. Bunney

Non-Pharmacological Interventions for Insomnia in Cancer Patients 
Gilla K. Shapiro, Samara Perez, Zeev Rosberger, and Josée Savard

Editor(s) Bio

Edited by

S.R. Pandi-Perumal, president and CEO, Somnogen Canada Inc., Toronto, Canada

Meera Narasimhan, University of South Carolina School of Medicine, Columbia, USA

Milton Kramer, emeritus professor of psychiatry, University of Cincinnati, USA