By
Karl Doghramji, MD, Medical Director, Jefferson Sleep Disorders Center
Professor of Psychiatry, Neurology, and Medicine
Program Director, Fellowship
in Sleep Medicine
Thomas Jefferson University
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Description
This issue is the definitive handbook on the most important psychiatric aspects of sleep medicine. Topics include a historical perspective
of sleep and psychiatry; the psychology of sleep and dreaming; the prevalence, impact, pathogenesis, differential diagnosis, and evaluation
of insomnia; pharmacological management of, as well as nonpharmacological strategies for, insomnia; excessive daytime somnolence and
fatigue in the psychiatric patient; parasomnias; sleep in mood disorders, schizophrenia, and anixiety disorders; behavioral sleep disorders
in children and adolescents; sleep disorders specifically in seniors and in women; and seasonal affective disorder and phototherapy.
Included in series
The Clinics: Internal Medicine
