Main description:

Sleep disturbances and sleep deprivation are increasingly common in modern society. Epidemiological methods of investigation have shown that sleep deprivation is associated with a variety of chronic conditions and health outcomes. Sleep medicine is a rapidly growing field of clinical research, affecting people across their lifespan.

Relevant to a wide range of specialities including respiratory medicine, neurology, cardiology, and psychiatry, sleep also has a significant impact on the study of epidemiology, public health, and preventive medicine. Sleep, Health, and Society presents epidemiological evidence linking sleep deprivation and disruption to several chronic conditions, and explores the public health implications with the view to developing preventive strategies.

The new edition of Sleep, Health, and Society provides up-to-date information on recently discovered areas of sleep medicine. Fully updated to reflect new research and data, as well as additional new chapters exploring eating patterns, nutrition, pregnancy, cancer, pain, and CBT in relation to sleep.

Written by leading experts in the field of sleep medicine, Sleep, Health, and Society is ideal for students and professionals in epidemiology and public health. The research presented would also be valuable to respiratory physicians, neurologists, cardiologists, and psychiatrists who are interested in the impact of sleep disturbances and disorders.

Contents:

Section 1: Sleep
1: Sleep, health and society: the contribution of epidemiology
2: Principles of sleep-wake regulation
3: The function of sleep
4: Sleep and cognition
5: An overview of sleep-wake circuitry: circuit nodes, pathways and transmitters
6: The genetics of sleep
7: Sleep disorders: types and approach to evaluation
Section 2: Health
8: Sleep and cardio-metabolic disease
9: Sleep and respiratory disorders
10: Sleep and neurological disorders
11: Sleep and epilepsy - chicken or egg?
12: Sleep, inflammation and disease
13: Sleep and pregnancy
14: Sleep in children: a permanently evolving set of challenges
15: Loss of sleep or loss of dark? [Answer: both are threats to optimum health]
16: Circadian rhythms, sleep and anticancer treatments
17: Sleep and pain
Section 3: Society
18: Sleep in Western culture: a historical perspective
19: The sociology of sleep
20: Sleep and shift-work
21: Drowsy driving
22: Sleep, work hours and medical performance
23: The built environment and sleep
24: Adolescent sleep and later school start times
25: Sleep, law and public policy
26: Narcolepsy: living with a sleep disorder