Sleep and sleep disorders
Subtitle: a neuropsychopharmacological approach
By: [edited by] Malcolm Lader, Daniel P. Cardinali, S.R. Pandi-Perumal.
Contributors: Lader, Malcolm Harold.; Cardinali, Daniel P.; Pandi-Perumal, S. R.
Publisher: Landes Bioscience / Eurekah.com; Springer Science+Business Media; Landes Bioscience/Eurekah.com
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Austin, Tex; New York, N.Y
Language: eng
Number of pages: 309
Subjects: Sleep -- Physiological aspects; Sleep disorders; Neuropharmacology; Chronopharmacology; Sleep -- physiology; Sleep Disorders -- drug therapy; Sleep Disorders -- psychology; Sleep -- drug effects; Sleep Disorders -- physiopathology
Notes: Includes index.
Table of contents: title: GaBaa receptor subtypes in sedation and hypnosis / Esa R. Korpi; title: Sleep hippocampal theta rhythm and sensory processing / Marisa Pedemonte and Ricardo A. Velluti; title: Monoaminergic mechanisms in the regulation of sleep-wakefulness:; title: Special emphasis on preoptic noradrenergic system / Vijay Ramesh and Velayudhan Mohan Kumar; title: REM sleep function and brain monoamine regulation: an application of the search activity concept / Vadim S. Rotenberg; title: Role of wakefulness area in the brainstem reticular formation in regulating rapid eye movement sleep / Birendra N. Mallick ... [et al.]; title: The mechanistic relationship between NREM sleep and anesthesia / Laura E. Nelson, Nicholas P. Franks, and Mervyn Maze; title: Time-dependent psychotropic drug effects: hints of pharmacochronomics, broader than circadian time structures / Haruo Nagayama ... [et al.]; title: Melatonin interaction with Bz-Gabaa receptors: implications for sleep induction / Lennard P. Niles; title: Melatonin: a chronobiotic that not only shifts rhythms / Dieter Kunz and Richard Mahlberg; title: Melatonin and human sleep / Irina V. Zhdanova; title: Melatonin efficacy to treat circadian alterations of sleep in Alzheimer's disease / Daniel P. Cardinali ... [et al.]; title: Pharmacotherapy for seasonal affective disorder / Timo Partonen; title: Use and discontinuation of hypnosedative medications / Mirko Petrovic; title: Long-term use of sleeping pills in chronic insomnia / Milton Kramer; title: Risks of chronic hypnotic use / Daniel F. Kripke; title: Effects of psychotropics on driving performance / Henry J. Moller, Colin M. Shapiro, and Leonid Kayumov; title: Diagnosis, pathophysiology and treatment of hypersomnias / Sebastiaan Overeem and Michel Billiard; title: Chronic disease and sleep architecture pharmacotherapeutic considerations / James J. Herdegen; title: Benzodiazepines for sedation in infants and children / Eugene Ng and Vibhuti Shah; title: The pharmacological management of fatigue and sleepiness in affective disorders / Karl Doghramji; title: Next-day residual effects of sleeping medications on driving ability: a review of the literature / Joris C. Verster, Marinus N. Verbaten, and Edmund R. Volkerts; title: Sleep and pain / Wilfred R. Pigeon, Hyung Park, and Michael J. Sateia; title: Head injuries and sleep / Chanth Seyone and Babita Kara; title: Psychopharmacological management of restless legs syndrome and periodic limb movements in sleep / Raed Hawa ... [et al.]; title: A comparison of visual analog scale and categorical ratings in assessing the patient's estimate of sleep quality / Nava Zisapel, Ricardo Tarrasch, and Moshe Laudon; title: The pharmacostrategy of treating sleep disorders in Parkinsonism / Jean-Jacques Askenasy; title: The neuropharmacology of nightmares / J.F. Pagel; title: The night eating syndrome / Grethe Seta Birketvedt and Jon R. Florholmen; title: Drug effects on dreaming / Mehmet Yucel Agargun and Hanefi Ozbek; title: Sleep problems in primary care / Alan G. Wade; title: SSRIs and sleep in man / Sue J. Wilson and David J. Nutt; title: Sleep and antipsychotic drugs in schizophrenia patients / Jaime M. Monti and Daniel Monti; title: Sleep and epilepsy: from interrelationships to influence of antiepileptic drugs / Antonio Martins da Silva ... [et all.]; title: Herbal medicines and sleep / Marcello Spinella.