Sleep-Wake Neurobiology and Pharmacology

Landolt, Hans-Peter; Dijk, Derk-Jan

This volume connects current ideas and concepts about sleep functions and circadian rhythms with the search for novel target-selective sleep-wake therapeutics. To do so, it provides a timely, state-of-the-art overview of sleep-wake mechanisms in health and disease, ongoing developments in drug discovery, and their prospects for the clinical treatment of sleep-disordered patients. It particularly focuses on the concept that sleep and wakefulness mutually affect each other, and the future therapeutic interventions with either sleep- or wake-promoting agents that are expected to not only improve the quality of sleep but also the waking behavior, cognition, mood and other sleep-associated physiological functions.

The chapter 'Sleep Physiology, Circadian Rhythms, Waking Performance and the Development of Sleep-Wake Therapeutics' available open access under a CC BY 4.0 license at link.springer.com

Details

Published by: Springer

Publication Date: 2019-09-19

Format: Hardcover

ISBN-13: 9783030112707

DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-11272-1

Dimensions: 235.0cm x155.0cm

Pages: 481.0