Sleep Neurology's Toolkit at the Crossroads: Challenges and Opportunities in Neurotherapeutics Lost and Found in Translation.

ABSTRACT: We find ourselves at our present crossroads with a well-traveled toolkit, perhaps too well worn but with aspirational hopes and dreams for the field of sleep neurotherapeutics. This volume is organized thematically into six topical domains that parallel the major subspecialty areas of contemporary clinical sleep neurology practice, as well as novel directions and opportunities. The issue begins with an overview of the central disorders of hypersomnolence, including narcolepsy, idiopathic hypersomnia and other hypersomnia disorders, and the related use of the entire broad range of stimulant and wake-promoting pharmacotherapies. Next, the range of behavioral therapies, application of light and light restriction and melatonin therapies, and hypnotic pharmacotherapies useful in insomnia and ci

SUBMITTER: St Louis EK 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8020828 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature