Harold R. Smith is Clinical Professor, Department of Neurology and Director Emeritus, Center for Sleep Medicine at the University of California, Irvine, CA, USA. Cynthia L. Comella is a Professor for Neurological Sciences, Department of Neurological Sciences, Rush University Medical Center, Chicago, IL, USA. Birgit Högl is Head of the Sleep Disorders Clinic, Department of Neurology, Innsbrück Medical University, Innsbrück, Austria.

• Foreword Antonio Culebras; Part I. Normal Sleep: Introduction: an introduction to the basic neurology of sleep Harold R. Smith; 1. Normal sleep Michel Billiard; 2. The evaluation and testing of the sleepy patient Charles Bae and Alon Avidan; Part II. Sleep Disorders: 3. Parasomnias Rosalia Silvestri and Irene Aricò; 4. Circadian rhythm disorders Christopher D. Fahey and Phyllis C. Zee; 5. Excessive somnolence disorders G. Mayer; 6. Insomnias James K. Wyatt and M. Isabel Crisostomo; 7. Restless Legs Syndrome (RLS) and Periodic Limb Movement Disorder (PLMD) Paul Christian Baier and Claudia Trenkwalder; 8. Sleep apnea (central and obstructive) Kannan Ramar and Christian Guilleminault; Part III. Sleep in Specialty Areas: 9. Sleep and neurologic disorders Ilonka Eisensehr; 10. Sleep and psychiatric disorders Thomas C. Wetter, Elisabeth Zils and Stephany Fulda; 11. Sleep and medical disorders Andrea Iaboni and Harvey Moldofsky; 12. Sleep and pediatrics Roberta Leu and Carol L. Rosen; 13. Sleep and geriatrics Marcel Hungs; 14. Forensic sleep medicine issues, violent parasomnias Michel A. Cramer Bornemann, Mark W. Mahowald and Carlos H. Schenck; Index.

'This is a very user-friendly manual that does not require readers to have a background in sleep medicine. Neophtyes will get a nice overview of sleep basics and busy clinicians will find a plethora of clinical nuggets.' Jeffrey Rado, Rush University Medical Center