Description

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This comprehensive volume provides a balanced and easily readable account of the rise of modern sleep medicine, its history and developmental milestones. Authored by an international group of experts, the remarkable progress and fascinating evolution from rudimentary concepts of the ancient prehistoric and early classical periods to our contemporary knowledge are covered in detail. These examples and their relationship to modern therapies offer neurologists, psychiatrists, respiratory specialists, clinicians, researchers and those interested in sleep medicine an important perspective to the origins of current practice.

About the Author

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Sudhansu Chokroverty, MD, FRCPProfessor of NeuroscienceSeton Hall UniversitySouth Orange, NJClinical Professor of Neurology Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical SchoolNew Brunswick, NJDirector of Sleep Research & Co-Chair Emeritus of Neurology JFK New Jersey Neuroscience InstituteEdison, NJUSA Michel Billiard M.D.Honorary Professor of NeurologySchool of MedicineUniversity Montpellier IHonorary ChairDepartment of NeurologyGui de Chauliac HospitalMontpellier, France