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Edited by Harold R. Smith, Cynthia L. Comella, and Birgit Högl
270 pp, $63
New York, NY, Cambridge University Press, 2008
ISBN-13: 978-0-5216-9957-0

JAMA. 2009;302(13):1469.

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Sleep Medicine begins with a simple but profound statement: "sleep is not an inactive state." In the subsequent 225 pages, the internationally respected editors and authors then present a thorough review of the full complexity of the science of sleep medicine. Edited by Smith, Comella, and Högl, the book includes sections on normal sleep, sleep disorders, and sleep in specialty areas; in short, nearly all a clinician needs to know and understand when evaluating and treating patients with excessive sleepiness or sleeplessness and the broad array of disturbances that occur during the sleep state.

The book begins with an introduction to the basic neurology of sleep, which serves as a useful prelude to subsequent chapters. The first chapter, "Normal Sleep," provides a concise review of the development of sleep staging and polysomnography. The basics of polysomnographic acquisition techniques and conventional sleep and wakefulness analysis are then clearly described. . . . [Full Text of this Article]

John Harrington, MD, MPH, Reviewer
National Jewish Health
Denver, Colorado
harringtonj@njhhealth.org

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