Main description:

Parasomnias are phenomena that occur exclusively during sleep or are exacerbated during sleep/wake transition. These disorders are known to contribute towards impaired quality of life, disturbed and non-restorative sleep, risk for injuries to self and others and often associated with other 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 chapters address 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.

Feature:

Provides a comprehensive review of pathophysiology, epidemiology, clinical characteristics, diagnostic evaluation and treatment of parasomnias across the life span

Each clinical chapter ends with “Practical Points” 

Includes case examples, illustrations, such as PSG and EEG fragments, tables and flow charts

Back cover:

Parasomnias are phenomena that occur exclusively during sleep or are exacerbated during sleep/wake transition.  These disorders are known to contribute towards impaired quality of life, disturbed and non-restorative sleep, risk for injuries to self and others, and often associated with other 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 chapters address 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.

Contents:

Section I – OVERVIEW

1. Introduction

      Sanjeev V. Kothare and Anna Ivanenko

1. Pathophysiology of Parasomnias

      Suresh Kotagal

1. Classification of Parasomnias

Erick N. Viorritto and Aatif M. Husain

1. Diagnosing Parasomnias

      Madeleine M. Grigg-Damberger and Frank M. Ralls

Section II – CLINICAL CHARACTERISTICS OF AROUSAL DISORDERS

1. Sleepwalking and Its Variants in Adults

      Frank M. Ralls and Madeleine M. Grigg-Damberger

1. Sleepwalking in Children and Adolescents

      Ravindra Arya and Sejal V. Jain

1. Sleep Terrors and Confusional Arousals in Adults

      Milena Pavlova and Myriam Abdennadher

1. Sleep Terrors and Confusional Arousals in Children and Adolescents

      Sejal V. Jain

Section III – CLINICAL CHARACTERSITICS OF SLEEP-WAKE TRANSITION                  DISORDERS

1. Sleep Starts and Sleep Talking

      Shelly K. Weiss

Section IV- CLINICAL CHARACTERISTICS

1. Physiology and Content of Dreams

      Ujjwal P. Ramtekkar, Anna Ivanenko, and Sanjeev V. Kothare

1. Nightmare Disorders in Adults  

      Antonio Zadra and Barry Krakow

1. Nightmare Disorders in Children

      Sriram Ramgopal, Marcin Zarowski, and Sanjeev V. Kothare

1. Recurrent Isolated Sleep Paralysis (RISP)

      Sricharan Moturi and Poojitha Matta

1. Sleep-related Hallucinations

      Anna Ivanenko and Sachin Relia

1. REM Behavior Disorder in Adults

      Sujay Kansagra and Bradley V. Vaughn

1. REM Behavior Disorder in Children

      Sriram Ramgopal, Marcin Zarowski, and Sanjeev V. Kothare

Section V – OTHER PARASOMNIAS

1. Nocturnal Paroxysmal Dystonia

      Joseph Kaleyias, Ruchi Arora, and Sanjeev V. Kothare

1. Sleep Related Dissociative Disorders 

      Keith R. Warren

1. Sleep Bruxism

      Umakanth Khatwa and Sanjeev V. Kothare

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1. Nocturnal Enuresis

      Ronald E. Becker

1. Sleep Related Eating Disorders: A Separate Entity or Part of the NES Clinical Spectrum?

      Orna Tzischinsky, Pierguiseppe Vinai, Michael J. Howell and Yael Latzer

1. Parasomnia Overlap Disorders 

      Thomas Freedom

Section VI – NEUROLOGICAL, PSYCHIATRIC AND MEDICAL DISORDERS PRESENTING AS PARASOMNIAS

      Kiran Maski and Smit S. Chauhan

 

1. Psychiatric Disorders Presenting with Parasomnias   

      Robert A. Kowatch

 

1. Medical Disorders Presenting with Parasomnias

      Ramadevi Gourineni and Lisa Wolfe

 

1. Parasomnias Caused by Other Conditions

      Harish Rao and Umakanth Khatwa

 

Section VII – INTERVENTIONS FOR PARASOMNIAS

 

1. Cognitive and Behavioral Interventions for Parasomnias

      Cynthia D. Nichols and Connie M. Bongiorno

 

1. Treatment of Parasomnias

      Milena Pavlova and Myriam Abdennadher

 

1. Use of Alter

      Youngran Chung and Robert C. Dumont

Section VIII- MEDICOLEGAL ASPECTS

1. Sexomnia: A Medicolegal Case-based Approach in Analyzing Potential Sleep-related Abnormal Sexual Behaviors

      Michel A. Cramer Bornemann

1. Forensic Aspects of the Parasomnias  

      Karl Doghramji, Solange Margery Bertoglia, and Clarence Watson