Dopamine and Sleep [electronic resource] : Molecular, Functional, and Clinical Aspects /
Monti, Jaime M.editor.
Pandi-Perumal, S. R.editor.
Chokroverty, S.editor.
This book offers a comprehensive but highly readable compilation of papers on the role of dopamine in sleep and sleep disorders. Leading experts in sleep medicine, psychiatry and neuroendocrinology provide a broad perspective on the field, from established theories to the latest research advances. Accordingly, it represents an interdisciplinary, cutting-edge guide for sleep disorder specialists, sleep researchers, psychiatrists, neurologists, pulmonologists, psychologists, and behavioral sleep medicine specialists.
Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters.
1. Dopamine – Historical aspects -- 2. Dopamine receptors – The dopamine transporter -- 3. The effect of dopamine receptor agonists on the sleep-wake cycle -- 4. Dopamine and its receptors: circadian aspects -- 5. Excitation of ventral tegmental area dopaminergic neurons by orexins/hypocretins -- 6. Role of the basal ganglia in the control of sleep and wakefulness -- 7. Mesolimbic dopamine and impulse control disorders -- 8. Sleep and Parkinson´s disease -- 9. Regulation and modulation of depression-related behaviors: role of dopaminergic 15 Neurons -- 10. Dopamine dysfunction in schizophrenia and its treatment -- 11. Schizophrenia: dopamine/glutamate interactions -- 12. Sleep in schizophrenia and the effect of antipsychotic drugs.
This book offers a comprehensive but highly readable compilation of papers on the role of dopamine in sleep and sleep disorders. Leading experts in sleep medicine, psychiatry and neuroendocrinology provide a broad perspective on the field, from established theories to the latest research advances. Accordingly, it represents an interdisciplinary, cutting-edge guide for sleep disorder specialists, sleep researchers, psychiatrists, neurologists, pulmonologists, psychologists, and behavioral sleep medicine specialists.
Pharmacology.
Molecular biology.
Neurochemistry.
Neurology .
Psychopharmacology.
Pharmacology/Toxicology.
Molecular Medicine.
Neurochemistry.
Neurology.
Psychopharmacology.