Main description:

This book offers a comprehensive but highly readable compilation of papers on the role of dopamine in sleep and sleep disorders. Leading experts in sleep medicine, psychiatry and neuroendocrinology provide a broad perspective on the field, from established theories to the latest research advances. Accordingly, it represents an interdisciplinary, cutting-edge guide for sleep disorder specialists, sleep researchers, psychiatrists, neurologists, pulmonologists, psychologists, and behavioral sleep medicine specialists.

Contents:

1. Dopamine - Historical aspects.- 2. Dopamine receptors - The dopamine transporter.- 3. The effect of dopamine receptor agonists on the sleep-wake cycle.- 4. Dopamine and its receptors: circadian aspects.- 5. Excitation of ventral tegmental area dopaminergic neurons by orexins/hypocretins.- 6. Role of the basal ganglia in the control of sleep and wakefulness.- 7. Mesolimbic dopamine and impulse control disorders.- 8. Sleep and Parkinsons disease.- 9. Regulation and modulation of depression-related behaviors: role of dopaminergic 15 Neurons.- 10. Dopamine dysfunction in schizophrenia and its treatment.- 11. Schizophrenia: dopamine/glutamate interactions.- 12. Sleep in schizophrenia and the effect of antipsychotic drugs.