Neurology; Sleep Medicine

Narcolepsy is characterized by excessive daytime sleepiness, cataplexy, fragmented sleep, and other symptoms. This comprehensive text explores the advances in research, focusing on the pathophysiology, diagnosis, and modern treatment approaches following the discovery of hypocretin neuropeptide loss.

Provides a comprehensive coverage of the basic neuroscience of both sleep and dreams for upper-level undergraduate and graduate students. It details new scientific discoveries, places those discoveries within evolutionary context, and links established findings with implications for sleep medicine. This second edition focuses on recent developments in the social nature of sleep and dreams. Coverage includes the neuroscience of all stages of sleep, the lifespan development of these sleep stages, the role of non-REM and REM sleep in health and mental health, comparative sleep, biological rhythms, sleep disorders, sleep memory, dream content, dream phenomenology, and dream functions.

A handbook designed for both neuromuscular physicians and sleep specialists, providing clinically relevant material regarding sleep issues and sleep-related problems common in patients with neuromuscular disorders.