sleep disorders

Concise guide to sleep and sheds helpful light on how it functions and how it can be disrupted.

Presents a revised edition of the original 1985 text that provides the author's suggestions for helping children establish health sleeping patterns, providing information on co-sleeping, sleep schedule abnormalities, effective nap strategies, bedtime difficulties, nighttime wakings and more.

Examines sleep disorders, their symptoms and manifestations, how they can be controlled and treated, and what it is like to live with a sleep disorder.

A study of the physiological and psychological reasons the body needs sleep, and of how this crucial function can be manipulated by certain drugs, therapies, changes in eating, or behavioral patterns.

A guide for children who have difficulties falling asleep at night, and provides solutions to overcoming various nighttime fears, such as nighttime noises, monsters, and scary dreams.

Discusses sleeping disorders, with information on dreaming and dream interpretation, insomnia, sleep apnea, restless leg syndrome, and the types of problems associated with NREM and REM sleep distrubances, also provides help to determine if you have a problem, and how to go about fixing it.

The ailments and conditions that afflict people today can be confusing, disturbing, and painful, both emotionally and physically. This book proofs clear, careful explanations that offer readers and researchers insight into sleep disorders, and the latest information about treatment and prevention.

Examines sleep and the normal stages of sleep; sleep disorders, their causes, and treatment; and why a lack of the right amount and quality of sleep is dangerous.