This Article  • Full text  • PDF  • Reply to article  • Send to a friend  • Save in My Folder  • Save to citation manager  • Permissions  Citing Articles  • Contact me when this article is cited  Related Content  • Similar articles in this journal  Social Bookmarking   What's this?

edited by Meir H. Kryger, MD, FRCPC, Thomas Roth, PhD, and William C. Dement, MD, PhD, 1336 pp, $145, ISBN 0-721-676-707, Philadelphia, Pa, WB Saunders Co, 2000.

Arch Neurol. 2001;58:1307-1308.

	Since this article does not have an abstract, we have provided the first 150 words of the full text and any section headings.

In the last half century, remarkable progress has been made in our understanding of the science of sleep. Concomitantly, practitioners have begun to delve into the art of the practice of sleep medicine. This third edition of Principles and Practice of Sleep Medicine, published 11 years after the first publication, admirably combines the basic science and clinical aspects of sleep medicine to produce an excellent text on sleep disorders medicine. As the authors state in the preface of the third edition, the changing landscape in the field of sleep medicine necessitated substantial changes in the organization and content of the book. As a result, this third edition is considerably enriched.

The book is divided into 2 parts containing 110 articles. Part I, on normal sleep, is subdivided into 6 sections dealing with normal sleep and its mechanisms, the physiology of sleep, chronobiology, and dreaming. Part II, on abnormal sleep, . . . [Full Text of this Article]

CiteULike    Connotea    Del.icio.us    Digg    Reddit    Technorati    Twitter     What's this?