- Classification of sleep disorders
- Sleep loss and sleepiness
- Approach to the patient with sleep complaint
- Manifestations of hypersomnia
- Neuropsychology of sleep
- Receptor mechanisms in sleep and wakefulness
- Transient insomnia: a behavioral sleep medicine perspective
- Chronic insomnia
- Rebound with hypnotic medication
- Benzodiazepines: an overview
- Benzodiazepines: effects on memory functioning
- Behavioral therapy, sleep hygiene and psychotherapy
- Sleep factors
- The cytoch P450 enzyme systems: its relevance to the pharmacology of sleep
- Pharmacokinetics: basic concepts for dosage regimen considerations
- Chronopharmacology: principles and applications in sleep medicine
- Sleep and geriatric psychopharmacology
- Antihistamines and sleep
- First generation hypnotics and sedatives
- Gaba-bzd receptors as target for new hypnotics
- Benzodiazepines: effects on sleep
- Indiplon
- Serotonergic drugs as sleep medications
- Prostaglandins and sleep/wake regulation
- Function of endocannabinoids and related compounds in sleep
- Sleep medications: when to prescribe and rationale for use
- Stimulants: mechanisms and therapeutic prospects
- Zolpidem: its use in the treatment of sleep disorders
- Eszopiclone: efficacy and safety
- Zaleplon
- Z-drugs: comparative tolerability
- Rationale for the development of the drugs
- Metalonin and other indolamines: their involvement in sleep regulation
- Ramelteon: a melatonin receptor agonist
- The rationale for the development of melatonin receptor ligands
- Schizophrenia, sleep and antipsychotic drugs
- Interrelationships between sleep, depression and antidepressant drugs
- Effect of antiepileptic medications on sleep architecutre
- Hormones and sleep
- Timezone travel, jet lag and sleep disturbances
- Alcohol, sleep, sleep disorders and consequent daytime impairment
- Sleep medication and traffic safety
- Effect of hypnotic drugs on body balance and standing steadiness
- Neuropharmacology of opioids
- Sleep and breathing disorders in adults
- Continuous positive airway pressure therapy
- Pharmacological treatment of obstructive sleep apnea
- Surgical options in snoring and obstructive sleep apnea
- Restless legs syndrome: treatment options
- Restless legs syndrome: effects on cognitive functioning, memory and psychomotor performance
- Pharmacological treatment of narcolepsy
- Modafinil and neuropharmacology of narcolepsy
- Narcolepsy: effects on cognitive functioning, memory and psychomotor performance
- Dreams: physiology, pharmacology and psychology
- Sleep and dreaming: medication effects and side-effects
- The subjective measurement of excessive daytime sleepiness
- The multiple sleep latency test and maintenance of wakefulness test: use and procedures
- The Osler test
- The Pittsburgh sleep quality index
- Scoring rules and general guidelines for the Pittsburgh Insomnia Rating Scale (PIRS)
- The Athens insomnia scale
- The Leeds Sleep Evaluation Questionnaire (LESQ) for psychopharmacology research
- Sleep Hygiene Practice Scale (SHPS)
- Cyclic Alternating Pattern (CAP)
- Jetlag questionnaire
- Body mass index
S.R. Pandi-Perumal, MSc
President and CEO of
Somnogen Inc., New York, NY, USA
Joris C. Verster, PhD
Utrecht University, Utrecht Institute for Pharmaceutical Sciences, Faculty of Science Section Psychopharmacology,
Utrecht, The Netherlands
Jaime M. Monti, MD
Department of Pharmacology
and Therapeutics, University of the Republic
School of Medicine, Montevideo, Uruguay
Malcolm Lader, MD, PhD
Emeritus Professor of Clinical Psychopharmacology Institute of Psychiatry, London, UK
Salomon Z. Langer, MD
Vice President Research, Alpha-2 Pharmaceutica AB, Tel Aviv, Israel
"Sleep Disorders: Diagnosis and Therapeutics is an excellent text and will be exceptionally helpful to practising clinicians as well as those with an interest in clinical pharmalogical research. It fills an important niche and serves as a welcome contribution to the field of sleep medicine."
The Journal of American Medical Association, April 2010
"This is a significant contribution to the field of sleep medicine. It is one of the first books of its kind that focuses specifically and in depth on sleep neuropsychopharmacology."
Doody's Review Service
