Principles and Practice of Sleep Medicine, 5th Edition, by Meir H. Kryger, MD, FRCPC, Thomas Roth, PhD, and William C. Dement, MD, PhD, delivers the comprehensive, dependable guidance you need to effectively diagnose and manage even the most challenging sleep disorders. Updates to genetics and circadian rhythms, occupational health, sleep in older people, memory and sleep, physical examination of the patient, comorbid insomnias, and much more keep you current on the newest areas of the field. A greater emphasis on evidence-based approaches helps you make the most well-informed clinical decisions. And, a new more user-friendly, full-color format, both in print and online, lets you find the answers you need more quickly and easily. Whether you are preparing for the new sleep medicine fellowship examination, or simply want to offer your patients today's best care, this is the one resource to use!

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  Make optimal use of the newest scientific discoveries and clinical approaches that are advancing the diagnosis and management of sleep disorders.

  
  


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  Stay on top of the hottest topics in sleep medicine with 56 new chapters, including:

  
  


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  Postpartum Sleep Disturbances

  
  

  Fatigue Risk Management

  
  

  What does Brain Imaging Reveal about Sleep Genesis and Maintenance?

  
  

  Physician Examination of the Sleep Patient

  
  

  Forensic Sleep Medicine

  
  

  Pathophysiology and Models of Insomnia

  
  

  Treatment of Insomnia: Developing Treatment Guidelines

  
  

  Restrictive Lung Disorders

  
  

  Sleep Medicine in the Elderly: Obstructive

  
  

  Obstructive Sleep Apnea, Metabolic, and Renal Disorders

  
  

  Sleep Apnea, Obesity and Bariatric Surgery

  
  

  Sleep and Renal Disease

  
  

  Theories of Dreaming

  
  

  Why We Dream

  
  

  Sleep, Stress, and Burnout

  
  

  Evaluating Sleep EEG and Sleep Stage Scoring

  
  

  And more

  
  


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  Master the newest areas in the field with 5 new sections covering:

  
  


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  Sleep Mechanisms and Phylogeny

  
  

  Genetics of Sleep

  
  

  Physiology in Sleep

  
  

  Occupational Sleep Medicine

  
  

  Sleep Medicine in the Elderly

  
  




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  Access the complete contents online, fully searchable, and follow links to abstracts for most bibliographical references.

  
  






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  Apply evidence-based approaches wherever available.

  
  






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  Find answers more easily thanks to a new user-friendly, full-color format.