Sleep and Sleep Disorders

Author: Ci Shuping
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Publish Date: 2005-11-01
Features: Sleep occupies one-third of a human's life. Healthy sleep is a crucial condition for maintaining vitality, and the quality of sleep affects physical health. This book consists of six parts and 46 chapters. The first part provides detailed discussions on the history, definition, function, significance, characteristics, types, and categories of sleep, as well as the effects and influencing factors of sleep on sleep deprivation, health, beauty, intelligence, gender, genetics, environment, and normal sleep. It also covers the role, mechanisms, duration, and methods of napping, as well as self-care knowledge for sleep, the development of healthy sleep habits, and the standards for healthy sleep. Additionally, it explores the relationship between sleep and dreaming, the formation of dreams, dreamscapes, dream interpretation, inspiration, memory, psychology, personality, and functions. The second part discusses related diseases and sleep, providing a comprehensive introduction to the mechanisms and treatments of how neurological, psychiatric, respiratory, cardiovascular, digestive, endocrine, musculoskeletal, and surgical diseases affect sleep. The third part elaborates on various aspects of insomnia and insomnia disorders. The fourth part addresses sleep issues in special populations, including shift workers, children, the elderly, and women. The fifth part covers common sleep disorders, categorizing and describing conditions such as sleep apnea syndrome, enuresis, narcolepsy, restless legs syndrome, bruxism, somnambulism, somniloquy, nocturnal emission, sudden death during sleep, and the hazards of sleep disorders. The sixth part provides an exhaustive review of sleep assessment techniques, including sleep monitoring technology, scale technology, and laboratory construction. Therefore, this book is suitable for both basic and clinical workers, as well as professional sleep researchers and healthcare professionals in various disciplines. It can also serve as a reference for patients and as a guide for healthy sleep care for the general population.