Chapter 16 Oral Appliances and Surgical Techniques for Obstructive Sleep Apnea Syndrome Therapy John A. Fleetham and Fernanda R. Almeida This chapter is based on a recent overview of the…
Chapter 3 Sleep Stages and Scoring Technique Raman K. Malhotra and Alon Y. Avidan Introduction to Sleep Stage Scoring The original Rechtschaffen and Kales sleep scoring manual of 1968, commonly…
Chapter 1 Polysomnographic Recording Technique Sudhansu Chokroverty and Sushanth Bhat The most important initial step in the evaluation of a patient with sleep complaints is a detailed and focused in-clinic…
Chapter 11 Sleep and Epilepsy Marco Zucconi and Sudhansu Chokroverty Epilepsy is a condition of recurrent unprovoked seizures, whereas a seizure is a paroxysmal event as a result of sudden…
Chapter 6 Hypnogram Analysis Robert J. Thomas, Sudhansu Chokroverty and Sushanth Bhat The hypnogram is a compressed graphic summary of an entire sleep study. It allows, on a single page,…
Chapter 13 Neuroimaging Techniques Thien Thanh Dang-Vu, Pierre Maquet and Martin Desseilles Normal sleep has been explored with functional brain imaging techniques to characterize the distribution of brain activity across…
Chapter 8 Cardiac Arrhythmias Robert J. Thomas, Sudhansu Chokroverty and Sushanth Bhat The polysomnogram (PSG) provides a good opportunity to evaluate cardiac rhythms. Although medically threatening abnormalities are seen less…
Chapter 7 Sleep-Related Movements and Scoring Techniques Birgit Högl and Raffaele Ferri Movements during sleep can occur as physiological phenomena or as the manifestations of sleep pathological conditions. In fact,…
Chapter 10 Motor Disorders During Sleep Sudhansu Chokroverty, Marco Zucconi, Federica Provini and Mauro Manconi Motor control in sleep is as complex as in wakefulness but clearly different. Sleep is…
Chapter 5 Basic Circadian Rhythms and Circadian Sleep Disorders Roneil Malkani and Phyllis C. Zee The human sleep-wake cycle is regulated by the circadian system. Although circadian rhythms are endogenously…
