The Oxford Handbook of Sleep and Sleep Disorders

Sleep is one of life's fundamental requirements, and like oxygen, water, and food, we simply cannot live without it.Sleep is essential for tissue repair, metabolism, growth, infection control, and for learning, memory, and emotional regulation.Moreover, these critical functions of sleep remain true across the lifespan.In many ways sleep is nature's medicine; it is what nature has provided to deliver daytime functioning and to maintain health and wellbeing. The Oxford Handbook of Sleep and Sleep Disorders has been carefully collated by its internationally renowned editors to provide a comprehensive and up-to-date guide to our understanding of sleep and circadian processes, and of the clinical disorders of sleep and sleep-wake regulation.The handbook therefore covers what sleep is and why it matters, but also explains the disorders of sleep, and how they can be assessed, differentiated, and treated. Comprising 46 chapters, each written by leading experts in their field, the handbook is o