... patients with sleep disorders, the advancement of sleep research, andpublicand professional education. In 2005, AASM listed 2993diplomates in Sleep Medicine (Fig. 1) and 550 accredited sleep centers. ... heels of the expansion of neurosomnology. Sleep is aConcept of Sleep Medicine and of Neurosomnology 5To my wife, Susan, and my daughters, Katerina and Andrea, who felt theabsences and enjoyed ... nonepilepticprimary sleepdisorders often associated with motor phenomena and with similarpresentations. These include some nightmares andsleep terrors, NREM sleep partial arousal disorders, and REM-sleep...
... 9Coordinated School Health Program An organized set of policies, procedures, and activities designed to protect,promote, and improve the healthand well-being of students and staff,thus improving a ... developed for professionals in the field of health promotion andhealth education and in related professions. It identi-fies a wide range of terms andhealthand professional organizations com-monly ... Assistance PanelA panel consisting of members eighteen years of age and older from thecommunity andhealth organizations to discuss and share health infor-mation and community concerns and issues...
... between health agencies and those with knowledge and experience in curriculum design and implementation and learning styles. c. Ensuring that funding supports a health promotion approach and is ... education andhealth fields and from the many evaluative studies of school health programs and practices, has provided us with a solid information base about what we can collaboratively in School Health. ... sector has certain language and concepts that have different meanings to those in healthand other sectors and vice versa. Evidence has shown that understanding, time, and mutual respect are...
... These products, which number in the thousands, include:■ personal items such as scents and hair sprays;■ household products such as finishes, rug and oven cleaners,paints and lacquers (and their ... air pollutants are found to some degree inevery home, school, and workplace. Sources include outdoor air and human occupants who shed viruses and bacteria, animaloccupants (insects and other ... standing water in air condi-tioners. Maintain humidifiers and dehumidifiers according tomanufacturer instructions.Repair leaks and seepage. Thoroughly clean and drywater-damaged carpets and...
... atrophyMyotonic dystrophy and other neuromuscular disorders causingsleepiness secondary to sleep apnea27CHAPTER 3 SleepDeprivationand Sleepinessduration and diseases and the causes and consequences ... animalgenetics of sleepandsleep disorders. Morin and Bencareplaced Spielman and Anderson for the insomniachapter (26), shedding light on recent understandingabout the role of non-pharmacologic and pharmacologictreatments ... “microsleep.”Overall, human sleepdeprivation experiments have proventhat sleepdeprivation causes sleepiness and impairment ofperformance, vigilance, attention, concentration, and mem-ory. Sleep...
... Preface IX Chapter 1 Sleepand Pregnancy: Sleep Deprivation, Sleep Disturbed Breathing andSleep Disorders in Pregnancy 1 Michelle A. Miller, Manisha Ahuja and Francesco P. Cappuccio Chapter ... major publichealth priority and is a common adverse outcome in pregnancy. Sleep quantity and quality are not only important determinants of maternal and foetal health but are also important ... controls. Sleep and Pregnancy: Sleep Deprivation, Sleep Disturbed Breathing andSleepDisorders in Pregnancy 13 2.6 Implications for publichealth In the general population sleep duration...
... (REM) sleep behaviour disorder, insomnia, and circadian rhythm disturbances. The present review discusses age-related changes in sleep architecture, aetiology, presentation, and treatment of sleep ... changes in sleep quality and quantity can be the most experience normal changes in sleep architecture and ... concluded that there is no systematic evidence that antihistamine, antidepressant, antipsychotic, and anticonvulsant treatment is effective for insomnia and ...
... dorsal raphe nucleus and tubero-mammilary nucleus (TMN), and regulates corticalactivity and arousal [38]. The balance struck amongthe various phases of sleepand the rapid transitionsfrom one ... receptor protein. In cells that have beentransfected with the mutant gene, the truncatedHcrtr2 protein does not properly localize to the mem-brane and therefore does not bind its ligands [43].Analysis ... REM.Additionally, and importantly, the hypocretin neuronsThe hypocretins andsleep L. de Lecea and J. G. Sutcliffe5680 FEBS Journal 272 (2005) 5675–5688 ª 2005 FEBS and melanin-concentrating...