Sleep Neurology A Comprehensive Guide to Basic and Clinical Aspects

This practical text provides knowledge of the basic neuroscience of sleep and sleep disorders as they interrelate with various neurologic conditions.

Chapters in the first section cover neural networks involved in normal sleep processes, including dreams and memory. Also discussed are how these neural networks interact in various sleep stages and sleep disorders, such as sleep related movement disorders. The book's second section explores the pathophysiology of sleep disorders in the  spectrum of neurologic conditions in both adults and children.  This includes sleep changes in patients with dementia, seizures, headaches, and stroke, and other common neurologic disorders.

Sleep Neurology fills an important gap in the sleep medicine literature by providing the underpinnings of sleep disorders and will be of great value to students, residents, and clinicians.

Section 1: Neurobiology of sleep and wakefulness

Neurobiology of wakefulness

Neurobiology of NREM

Neurobiology of REM

Neurobiology of circadian rhythm disorders

Neurobiology of sleep related breathing

Neurobiology of sleep related movements

Neurobiology of Parasomnias

Neurobiology of Dreams

Neurobiology of memory and sleep

Neurologic consequences of sleep deprivation

Section 2: sleep in neurologic conditions.

Sleep in seizures

Sleep in headaches

Sleep in traumatic brain injury

Sleep in cerebral palsy

Sleep in cerebrovascular disease

Sleep in movement disorders

Sleep in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis

Sleep in cerebellar disease

Sleep in neuromuscular disease

Sleep in dementia

Sleep in multiple sclerosis

Sleep in neoplastic and paraneoplastic syndromes

Sleep in neurologic infections

Lourdes M. DelRosso, MD, FAASM

Associate Professor of Pediatrics  

Division of Pulmonary and Sleep Medicine 

University of Washington School of Medicine

Seattle Children's Hospital 

 Seattle, WA

Raffaele Ferri, MD

Oasi Research Institute

Developmental Disabilities and Brain Aging

Sleep Research Centre, Department of Neurology IC

Troina, Italy