Sleep Science: Integrating Basic Research and Clinical Practice (Frontiers of Neurology and Neuroscience)

Focusing on sleep and its associated disorders, this book discusses topics that have been selected to illustrate how research is being translated into clinical insights and therapy. Subjects examined include the mechanisms of intracellular signal transduction, effects of ambient geophysical cycles, the physiologic regulation of sleep and its homeostatic collapse, the underlying neural and chemical circuitry and the biological basis for new therapies using melatonin and environmental light.