Sleep disorders and their psychiatric significance
pp. 203-227
in: William E. Fann, Ismet Karacan, Alex D. Pokorný, Robert L. Williams (eds), Phenomenology and treatment of psychophysiological disorders, Berlin, Springer, 1982Abstract
The last decade witnessed a rapid growth in the number of sleep laboratories and sleep researchers. In the eighties, sleep evaluation is expected to become a routine part of patient evaluation. The abundant data collected to date will not only help physicians in their daily practice, but will also facilitate the communication between sleep researchers and a variety of other medical specialists. With additional assistance from bioengineers and computer specialists, medical experts are revealing unsolved problems in the basic mechanisms of sleep and its disorders.