Main description:

This comprehensive resource covers the current thoughts and trends on narcolepsy, as well as cutting-edge evidence-based research. Updates from the previous edition include advances in diagnostic guidelines, treatments, protocols and clinical and psychosocial considerations. Aspects of narcolepsy relating to sleep medicine, neurology, psychiatry and public health are featured throughout the text. Narcolepsy, 2nd Edition provides clinicians and allied health professionals with patient management modalities, clinical and quality of life issues and best practices for health care delivery.

Contents:

Section I--Etiology

1. The Genetics of Narcolepsy

2. Orexin (Hypocretin) and Narcolepsy

3. Precipitants of Narcolepsy: Vaccines and Infections

Section II--Clinical Considerations

4. Epidemiology of Narcolepsy

5. Diagnostic Criteria and Delay in Diagnosis of Narcolepsy

6. Narcolepsy in Childhood

7. Narcolepsy in the Older Adult

8. Hypnagogic Hallucinations and Sleep Paralysis

9. Symptomatic Narcolepsy or Hypersomnia, with and without Hypocretin (Orexin) Deficiency

10. Hypersomnias Other than Narcolepsy:

Differential Diagnosis

11. Narcolepsy and Other Comorbid Medical Illnesses

12. Sleep Disorders Comorbidities in Narcolepsy and their Management

13. Neuroimaging of Narcolepsy

Section III--Psychosocial Considerations

14. Quality of Life and Psychosocial Issues in Narcolepsy: Implications for Management

15. Narcolepsy, Intimacy and Sexuality

16. Memory and Cognition in Narcolepsy

17. Psychoanalysis and Narcolepsy

18. Dreaming in Narcolepsy

19. Narcolepsy and Mental Illness

20. Narcolepsy, Driving and Traffic Safety

Section IV--Management

21. Overview of Management of Narcolepsy

22. Modes of Action of Drugs Related to Narcolepsy: Pharmacology of Wake-Promoting Compounds and Anticataplectics

23. Modafinil/Armodafinil in the Treatment of N

arcolepsy

24. Sodium Oxybate in the Treatment of Narcolepsy

25. Pregnancy and Anaesthesia in Narcolepsy

26. Emerging Treatments for Narcolepsy

27. Behavioral and Non-Pharmacological Management of Narcolepsy

Section V--Health Care Delivery and Medico-Legal Considerations

28. Narcolepsy and Developmental Disability

29. Succeeding in School and in the Workplace with Narcolepsy

30. Medico-Legal Aspects of Disability in Narcolepsy

31. The Affordable Care Act and the Future of Sleep Medicine