Sleep Medicine - A Comprehensive Guide to Its Development, Clinical Milestones, and Advances in Treatment

This comprehensive volume provides a balanced and easily readable account of the rise of modern sleep medicine, its history and developmental milestones. Authored by an international group of experts, the remarkable progress and fascinating evolution from rudimentary concepts of the ancient prehistoric and early classical periods to our contemporary knowledge are covered in detail. These examples and their relationship to modern therapies offer neurologists, psychiatrists, respiratory specialists, clinicians, researchers and those interested in sleep medicine an important perspective to the origins of current practice.


Sudhansu Chokroverty, MD, FRCP
Professor of Neuroscience
Seton Hall University
South Orange, NJ
Clinical Professor of Neurology
 Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School
New Brunswick, NJ
Director of Sleep Research & Co-Chair Emeritus of Neurology
 JFK New Jersey Neuroscience Institute
Edison, NJ
USA
 
 
Michel Billiard M.D.
Honorary Professor of Neurology
School of Medicine
University Montpellier I
Honorary Chair
Department of Neurology
Gui de Chauliac Hospital
Montpellier, France