Main description:

This volume is intended for neuropharmacologists, psychopharmacologists, pharmacologists, pharmacists, sleep researchers, translational neuroscience researchers, and other basic researchers and clinical scientists interested in an interdisciplinary approach to sleep medicine. The level of the book is aiming at CNS researchers, drug development scientists, basic and clinical sleep researchers, as well as senior medical students and fellows in psychiatry and neurology. Orexin and Sleep provides a unique resource, giving a comprehensive and highly readable summary of the basic concepts in orexin biology and pharmacology along with clinical applications in sleep medicine in general, and narcolepsy in particular.

Contents:

History of Orexin Research.- The Hypocretin Story.- Input and output systems of orexin neurons.- Physiological roles of orexin receptors on sleep/wakefulness regulation.- Orexin receptor functions in the ascending arousal system (Folder name - Leonard).- Elucidation of neuronal circuitry involved in the regulation of sleep/wakefulness using optogenetics (Folder name - Yamanaka).- Modulation of thalamocortical pathways by orexins.- Orexins, Alcohol and Sleep Homeostasis.- Orexin induced modulation of REM sleep and its loss associated patho-physiological changes are mediated through locus coeruleus.- Role of orexin on sleep: interactions with other neurotransmitter systems.