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Sleep The Mysteries, the Problems, and the Solutions

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ISBN-10: 1583332707

ISBN-13: 9781583332702

Edition: 2007

Authors: Carlos H. Schenck

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The average adult will spend more than 200,000 hours sleeping in a lifetime, the equivalent of more than 8,000 days. Yet research has only just begun to decode the mysteries behind what really happens when we sleep. Now Dr. Carlos Schenck, one of the most prominent sleep doctors and researchers in the country, takes us on an extraordinary journey into the mechanisms of sleep and what can go wrong. Dr. Schenck explains and then offers solutions for the most common sleep disorders-insomnia, restless legs syndrome, sleep apnea, and more. But what sets this book apart is the fascinating new insights Schenck offers from the cutting-edge science that he and other researchers have pioneered in…    
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Book details

List price: $24.95
Copyright year: 2007
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Publication date: 3/1/2007
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 320
Size: 6.25" wide x 9.25" long x 1.25" tall
Weight: 1.100

Carlos H. Schenck, M.D. is a senior staff psychiatrist at the Hennepin County Medical Center and the Minnesota Regional Sleep Disorders Center, a renowned interdisciplinary sleep clinic and laboratory, and is an associate professor at the University of Minnesota Medical School in Minneapolis. A recognized expert, he has identified and named numerous parasomnias with his colleagues, and is often quoted in the press, including The New York Times. He has appeared on Good Morning America, Today, and on CNN.

A tour of sleep
Insomnia : bleary-eyed nights
Obstructive sleep apnea : suffocating repeatedly in your sleep
Restless legs syndrome : the agony of jittery drowsiness
Hypersomnias : excessive sleepiness, daytime dysfunction
Circadian-rhythm disorders : timing is everything
Confusional arousals and the crush of severe morning sleep inertia
Sleepwalking : the twilight state
Abnormal sleepsex : unknowing cruel intimacy
Sleep terrors : the night the ghost got scared
Sleep paralysis : dreaded visits from the old hag
Sleep-related binge eating : relentless loss of control
REM sleep behavior disorder : bizarre and violent dream enactment
Noctural dissociative disorders : the lost children as adults
Sleep-talking : disruptive chatter, obscene shouting, and Desdemona scenarios
Parasomnia : shadows of obstructive sleep apnea
Parasomnia potpourri : nocturnal groaning, exploding head syndrome, sleep-laughing ... and pets with parasomnias
Bed partner's insomnia : sleeping with a snorer, leg-jerker, loud sleep-talker, or parasomniac