Clinical Handbook of Insomnia

ISBN: 978-1-61737-465-4
Verlag: Springer, Berlin

Buch, Englisch, 208 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm

Reihe: Current Clinical Neurology

Expert clinicians and researchers provide practicing primary health care providers the first clinically oriented, comprehensive textbook devoted to the evaluation and treatment of insomnia. Summarizing the latest findings published in a wide variety of medical journals, these experts concisely review the primary insomnias and those due to medical, neurological, and psychiatric problems, and to fully discuss the latest pharmacological and nonpharmacological treatments for insomnia. A simple algorithm for the differential diagnosis of insomnia is included. Although insomnia is the second most common complaint, after pain, in the primary care setting, medical texts and reference books often fail to give full treatment to the subject. In Clinical Handbook of Insomnia, expert clinicians and researchers provide practicing primary health care providers the first clinically oriented, comprehensive textbook devoted to the evaluation and treatment of insomnia. Summarizing the latest findings published in a wide variety of medical journals, these experts concisely review the primary insomnias (those in children and adults, psychophysiological and idiopathic insomnia, and sleep state misperception), as well as those caused by medical, neurological, and psychiatric problems. They then fully discuss the latest pharmacological and nonpharmacological treatments for insomnia, illustrating each topic with detailed case studies, algorithms, charts, and graphs to better demonstrate the points presented. Also included is a simple algorithm for the differential diagnosis of insomnia.
Comprehensive, easy to read, and up-to-date, Clinical Handbook of Insomnia considers the disorder in all its multiple forms, helping the practicing health care provider to identify the problem early on, to recognize its underlying cause, and to prescribe the most efficacious treatment.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Part I: Overview
Defining Insomnia
Hrayr P. Attarian, Pallavi Nishith-Davis, Carla R. Jungquist, and Michael L. Perlis
Epidemiology of Insomnia
Hrayr P. Attarian
Physiological Basis of Insomnia
Michael H. Bonnet and Donna L. Arand
Differential Diagnosis of Insomnia
Hrayr P. Attarian
Part II: The Primary Insomnias
Insomnia in Children and Adolescents
John Garcia
Psychophysiological Insomnia
Hrayr P. Attarian
Idiopathic Insomnia
Hrayr P. Attarian
Sleep State Misperception
Stephen Duntley
Sleep Hygiene
Hrayr P. Attarian
Part III: The Secondary Insomnias
Insomnia Caused by Medical and Neurological Disorders
Kenneth E. Plotkin
Insomnia in Psychiatric Disorders
Samy S. Karaz
Insomnia in Primary Sleep Disorders
Stephen Duntley
Part IV: Treatment of Insomnia
Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy for Insomnia
Michael L. Perlis, Michael T. Smith, Carla R. Jungquist, Sara Nowakowski, Henry Orff, and James Soeffing
Pharmacological Treatment of Insomnia
Hrayr P. Attarian
Index