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