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 attributed to the introduction of
new research technologies.
The widespread adoption of a range of new methods in sleep
research has opened a window of opportunities to explore at the
cellular and molecular level, which previously had been tightly
closed. Therefore, this volume promises to provide an exceptional
single source of detailed information related to this topic. It
will thereofre be of interest to advanced graduate students and
specialists in the field of sleep medicine, neuroendocrinology,
psychiatry, psychobiology and neurobiology. 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 ofSleep/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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