Author | Mendelson, Wallace B. author |
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Title | Human Sleep and Its Disorders [electronic resource] / by Wallace B. Mendelson, J. Christian Gillin, Richard Jed Wyatt |
Imprint | Boston, MA : Springer US, 1977 |
Connect to | http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4684-2289-4 |
Descript | XIV, 260 p. online resource |
1 An Introduction to Sleep Studies -- Techniques of Human Sleep Studies -- The Sleep Stages -- The REM-NonREM Cycle -- Sleep Stages and Age -- Effects of Temporal Variables on Sleep -- Physiological Variables Related to the Sleep Stages -- Sleep Deprivation -- Natural Long, Short, and Variable Sleepers -- Regulation of Sleep -- Summary -- 2 A Pharmacologic Approach to Sleep Studies -- Serotonergic System -- Noradrenergic System -- Cholinergic System -- Histaminergic System -- Discussion -- Summary -- 3 Neuroendocrinology and Sleep -- Basic Concepts in Neuroendocrinology -- Growth Hormone -- The Pituitary-Adrenal Axis -- Prolactin -- Follicle-Stimulating Hormone and Luteinizing Hormone -- Thyroid-Stimulating Hormone -- Antidiuretic Hormone -- ADH Secretion during Sleep -- Melatonin -- Summary -- 4 Narcolepsy and Diseases of Excessive Sleep -- Definition -- Natural History -- Epidemiology and Genetics -- Etiology -- Other Disorders of Excessive Daytime Sleep -- Diagnosis -- Pharmacotherapy of Narcolepsy -- Summary -- 5 Clinical Studies of Insomnia -- Normal Sleep -- Incidence of Insomnia -- Kinds of Insomnia -- Tentative List of Causes of Insomnia -- Sleep Induction -- An Approach to Patients Who Complain of Insomnia -- 6 Alcohol, Alcoholism, and the Problem of Dependence -- Animal Studies -- Ethanol in Normal Human Subjects -- Effects of Ethanol on Chronic Alcoholics -- Issues Raised by Observations of the REM Sleep Rebound -- Experimental Therapies -- Summary -- 7 Affective Disorders and Schizophrenia -- Basic Definitions -- Studies of Sleep in Depressed Patients -- Sleep Studies in Schizophrenia -- Summary