Based on the highly acclaimed Sleep: A Comprehensive Handbook , this is a concise, convenient, practical, and affordable handbook on sleep medicine. It consists of forty topic - focused chapters written by a panel of international experts covering a range of topics including insomnia, sleep apnea, narcolepsy, parasomnias, circadian sleep disorders, sleep in the elderly, sleep in children, sleep among women, and sleep in the medical, psychiatric, and neurological disorders. It serves as an effective Sleep Medicine board examination review, and every chapter includes sample boards - style questions for test preparation and practice.