Atlas of Sleep Medicine (Second Edition) Por Sudhansu Chokroverty; Robert J. Thomas
"Since the publication of the first edition of the Atlas of Sleep Medicine in 2005, there has been an increasing interest and demand for visual display of interesting and educationally satisfying sleep-related events and recordings. Many topics are better served by pictorial or video display. A case in point is movement triggered by sleep or preferentially occurring during sleep (e.g., parasomnias, nocturnal frontal lobe epilepsy). In addition, new sleep disorders have been described (e.g., catathrenia, complex sleep apnea, alternating leg muscle activation) and the spectrum of REM sleep behavior disorder (RBD) has expanded in terms of clinical presentation and relevance as a prodromal manifestation of future neurodegenerative disease, driving investigators to develop quantifiable diagnostic criteria in the prodromal stage. Also, now there is PSG requirement for diagnosis of RBD as mentioned in the International Classification of Sleep Disorders (ICSD), Second Edition. Furthermore, evidence in the literature points to the heterogeneity of electromyographic (EMG) findings in RBD patients, showing dissociation among cranial and upper- and lower-limb muscle tonic and phasic activities, requiring multiple muscle recordings."
ISBN: 9781455712670
Fecha de publicación: 2013-09-23