The Neurologic ExaminationTips and Techniques to Help Improve Your Yield The neurologic exam can be fairly simple to perform and interpret if you approach it systematically as you do the…
The Clinical HistoryGetting the Important Information You Need Efficiently Whether you are still in the classroom and fairly new to patient care or are an experienced clinician, you already know…
Your Approach to the Neurologic PatientWhere do You Start? You need to have an approach to patients with potential neurologic problems that is both efficient and accurate. A reliable method…
Introduction “I guess it’s not lumbar radiculopathy.” This particular clinical impression was offered by an enthusiastic fourth-year medical student and refers to a patient who actually did, in fact, suffer…
Chapter 13 Sleep Breathing Disorders 13.1 Examination of the Patient with Suspected Sleep Apnea Meir H. Kryger Because many patients with sleep apnea have anatomic abnormalities that cause obstruction of…
Chapter 19 Gallery of Polysomnographic Recordings Max Hirshkowitz and Meir H. Kryger This chapter presents a wide variety of polysomnographic recordings organized by disorder or disease. Obstructive Sleep Apnea (OSA)…
Chapter 11 Neurologic Disorders 11.1 Central Nervous System Hypersomnias Chad Ruoff and Emmanuel Mignot Overview Excessive daytime sleepiness (EDS) is one of the most common complaints encountered in sleep disorder…
Chapter 3 Biology of Sleep 3.1 Sleep Mechanisms Patrick M. Fuller, Phyllis C. Zee and Orfeu M. Buxton Nervous System Control Although it is generally believed that in sleep, the…
Chapter 4 Normal Sleep 4.1 Sleep in Animals and the Phylogeny of Sleep Jerome Siegel The amount of sleep required by animals varies greatly. The horse sleeps less than 2…
Chapter 21 Gallery of Sleep Laboratory Video Findings Meir H. Kryger This chapter contains examples of video findings obtained in a typical sleep medicine clinic polysomnography lab. They are grouped…
