Sleep Deprivation: Clinical Issues, Pharmacology, and Sleep Loss Effects

by Clete A. Kushida (Editor)

Overview

Exploring the wide array of structures, substances, and environments that are primary factors in the initiation or inhibition of sleep, this reference highlights key findings from respected professionals around the globe on the social and economic burden of impaired performance, productivity, and safety arising from sleep deprivation-studying pharm

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781135572471
Publisher:	CRC Press
Publication date:	11/16/2004
Series:	Lung Biology in Health and Disease
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	624
File size:	5 MB

About the Author

Clete A. Kushida

Table of Contents

Introduction Claude Lenfant
Preface
Contributors

EVALUATION OF SLEEP LOSS

SLEEP LOSS IN DISEASE STATES

SPECIAL POPULATIONS

CONSEQUENCES OF SLEEP LOSS

SHORT-TERM COUNTERMEASURES FOR SLEEP LOSS EFFECTS

CRITICAL THEORETICAL AND PRACTICAL ISSUES

Editorial Reviews

"…In this scholarly and extensively referenced book, which brings together commentary and discussion from a large group of expert investigators, readers will find detailed accounts of may obvious and not-so-obvious problems concerning sleep deprivation."
-New England Journal of Medicine

"…readily accessible to readers without previous in-depth experience in sleep physiology or medicine….an excellent desktop manual."
-Annals of Internal Medicine

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