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Neuroendocrine Correlates of Sleep/Wakefulness (Paperback, 2005 ed.)
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Neuroendocrine Correlates of Sleep/Wakefulness (Paperback, 2005 ed.)
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As the title suggests, and unlike other existing books on sleep
medicine, Neuroendocrine Correlates of Sleep/Wakefulness will be
devoted primarily to endocrine regulation of the behavioral state
control. It will address a wide spectrum of sleep./wakefulness
phenomena (both animals and humans), including pathogenesis,
diagnosis, and management. From molecular biology to applied
clinical therapy, sleep research has been transformed in the last
few years from a research backwater to an important
interdisciplinary field. Anyone who regularly reads the literature
on sleep, biological rhythms, or neuroendocrinology is aware that
one of the subspecialties within sleep medicine, the neuroendocrine
correlates of sleep/wakefulness, has in particular experienced a
growth rate that is even faster than that of the field as a whole.
To a significant extent this has been due to the introduction of
new research technologies. The widespread adoption of a range of
new methods in sleep research has opened a window into activities
at the cellular and molecular level, which previously had been
tightly closed. Consequently these activities are being
characterized with a degree of precision and sensitivity that is
without precedent. This volume invites the reader to explore the
new vistas that have been opened onto the neuroendocrine frontier
of sleep medicine. The editors have selectively identified a number
of key articles having a citation frequency, which is considerably
above the norm or which otherwise have contributed importantly to
defining the neuroendocrine perspective. This new volume on
Neuroendocrine Correlates of Sleep/Wakefulness is an up-to-date
resource of research summaries and reviews written by major
contributors to the fields of sleep, biological rhythms and
neuroendocrinology. Its coverage is broad and its basic and
clinical science reviews are detailed. In this volume, an
international team of experts discuss their latest ideas, concepts,
methods, and interpretations with supporting examples. This volume
is intended for advanced students and specialists in psychobiology,
neuroscience, neuroendocrinology, and psychiatry but might also be
interest to anyone concerned with understanding the Neuroendocrine
correlates of sleep/wakefulness. The contributions are directed
more towards providing an integrated view of the field from the
perspective of the authors, rather than being a compendium of
recent results. The intent is to provide a reference book for
recent and future workers in this and related areas of medicine and
biology. Each topic in this volume has received the attention of a
panel of authors who have responded to our request to review and
place into perspective the major issues, which will undoubtedly
confront newcomers to the field. The topics dealt with in
Neuroendocrine correlates of Sleep/wakefulness are both diverse and
complex. The editors hope that this volume will provide an
authoritative summary of important issues in the neuroendocrine
correlates of sleep/wakefulness. We also hope that it will motivate
new researchers to join the quest for solutions to the problems
that have been identified by our contributing authors.
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