Synopses & Reviews
Synopsis
Parasomnias arephenomena that occur exclusively during sleep or are exacerbated during sleep/wake transition. These disorders are knownto contribute towards impaired quality of life, disturbed and non-restorative sleep, risk for injuries to self and others and often associated withother medical, neurological and psychiatric disorders. Advances in sleep medicine have revealed a high prevalence of parasomnias across all ages.With the growing interest for diagnosing and management of parasomnias in sleep medicine, a practical guide to parasomnias is greatly needed.
Parasomnias provides a comprehensive review of epidemiology, pathophysiology, clinical characteristics, diagnostic evaluation and treatment of parasomnias across the patient s life span.Written by experts, each chapter integrates the latest research and clinical data. In addition, several chaptersaddress medico-legal and forensic aspects of parasomnias.
Clinicians and researchers with an interest in sleep medicine will find Parasomnias to not only be an important contribution to the literature, but an indispensible guide to identifying, understanding and treating this disorder.
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Synopsis
Section I - OVERVIEW
- Introduction
Sanjeev V. Kothare and Anna Ivanenko
- Pathophysiology of Parasomnias
Suresh Kotagal
- Classification of Parasomnias
Erick N. Viorritto and Aatif M. Husain
- Diagnosing Parasomnias
Madeleine M. Grigg-Damberger and Frank M. Ralls
Section II - CLINICAL CHARACTERISTICS OF AROUSAL DISORDERS
- Sleepwalking and Its Variants in Adults
Frank M. Ralls and Madeleine M. Grigg-Damberger
- Sleepwalking in Children and Adolescents
Ravindra Arya and Sejal V. Jain
- Sleep Terrors and Confusional Arousals in Adults
Milena Pavlova and Myriam Abdennadher
- Sleep Terrors and Confusional Arousals in Children and Adolescents
Sejal V. Jain
Section III - CLINICAL CHARACTERSITICS OF SLEEP-WAKE TRANSITION DISORDERS
- Sleep Starts and Sleep Talking
Shelly K. Weiss
Section IV- CLINICAL CHARACTERISTICS
OF PARASOMNIAS ASSOCIATED WITH REM SLEEP
- Physiology and Content of Dreams
Ujjwal P. Ramtekkar, Anna Ivanenko, and Sanjeev V. Kothare
- Nightmare Disorders in Adults
Antonio Zadra and Barry Krakow
- Nightmare Disorders in Children
Sriram Ramgopal, Marcin Zarowski, and Sanjeev V. Kothare
- Recurrent Isolated Sleep Paralysis (RISP)
Sricharan Moturi and Poojitha Matta
- Sleep-related Hallucinations
Anna Ivanenko and Sachin Relia
- REM Behavior Disorder in Adults
Sujay Kansagra and Bradley V. Vaughn
- REM Behavior Disorder in Children
Sriram Ramgopal, Marcin Zarowski, and Sanjeev V. Kothare
Section V - OTHER PARASOMNIAS
- Nocturnal Paroxysmal Dystonia
Joseph Kaleyias, Ruchi Arora, and Sanjeev V. Kothare
- Sleep Related Dissociative Disorders
Keith R. Warren
- Sleep Bruxism
Umakanth Khatwa and Sanjeev V. Kothare
- Nocturnal Enuresis
Ronald E. Becker
- Sleep Related Eating Disorders: A Separate Entity or Part of the NES Clinical Spectrum?
Orna Tzischinsky, Pierguiseppe Vinai, Michael J. Howell and Yael Latzer
- Parasomnia Overlap Disorders
Thomas Freedom
Section VI - NEUROLOGICAL, PSYCHIATRIC AND MEDICAL DISORDERS PRESENTING AS PARASOMNIAS
Neurological Conditions Associated with Parasomnias Kiran Maski and Smit S. Chauhan
- Psychiatric Disorders Presenting with Parasomnias
Robert A. Kowatch
- Medical Disorders Presenting with Parasomnias
Ramadevi Gourineni and Lisa Wolfe