Clinical handbook of insomnia / edited by Hrayr P. Attarian ; foreword by Mark W. Mahowald.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Attarian, Hrayr P.

Series:

Current clinical neurology

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Insomnia--Handbooks, manuals, etc.

Insomnia.

Sleep Initiation and Maintenance Disorders.

Medical Subjects:

Sleep Initiation and Maintenance Disorders.

Genre:

Handbooks and manuals.

Physical Description:

xv, 191 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Other Title:

Insomnia

Place of Publication:

Totowa, N.J. : Humana Press, [2004]

Summary:

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.

Contents:

1 Defining Insomnia / Hrayr P. Attarian, Pallavi Nishith-Davis, Carla R. Jungquist, Michael L. Perlis 3

2 Epidemiology of Insomnia / Hrayr P. Attarian 11

3 Physiological Basis of Insomnia / Michael H. Bonnet, Donna L. Arand 23

4 Differential Diagnosis of Insomnia / Hrayr P. Attarian 39

Part II The Primary Insomnias

5 Insomnia in Children and Adolescents / John Garcia 53

6 Psychophysiological Insomnia / Hrayr P. Attarian 67

7 Idiopathic Insomnia / Hrayr P. Attarian 81

8 Sleep State Misperception / Stephen Duntley 89

9 Sleep Hygiene / Hrayr P. Attarian 99

Part III The Secondary Insomnias

10 Insomnia Caused by Medical and Neurological Disorders / Kenneth E. Plotkin 109

11 Insomnia in Psychiatric Disorders / Samy S. Karaz 127

12 Insomnia in Primary Sleep Disorders / Stephen Duntley 141

Part IV Treatment of Insomnia

13 Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy for Insomnia / Michael L. Perlis, Michael T. Smith, Carla R. Jungquist, Sara Nowakowski, Henry Orff, James Soeffing 155

14 Pharmacological Treatment of Insomnia / Hrayr P. Attarian 173.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

158829272X

OCLC:

52086181