This comprehensive resource covers the current thoughts and trends on narcolepsy, as well as cutting-edge evidence-based research. Updates from the previous edition include advances in diagnostic guidelines, treatments, protocols and clinical and psychosocial considerations. Aspects of narcolepsy relating to sleep medicine, neurology, psychiatry and public health are featured throughout the text. Narcolepsy, 2nd Edition provides clinicians and allied health professionals with patient management modalities, clinical and quality of life issues and best practices for health care delivery.

CONTENTS:
1. The Genetics of Narcolepsy
2. Orexin (Hypocretin) and Narcolepsy
3. Precipitants of Narcolepsy: Vaccines and Infections
4. Epidemiology of Narcolepsy
5. Diagnostic Criteria and Delay in Diagnosis of Narcolepsy
6. Narcolepsy in Childhood
7. Narcolepsy in the Older Adult
8. Hypnagogic Hallucinations and Sleep Paralysis
9. Symptomatic Narcolepsy or Hypersomnolence with and Without Hypocretin (Orexin) Deficiency
10. Hypersomnias Other Than Narcolepsy: Differential Diagnosis
11. Narcolepsy and Other Comorbid Medical Illnesses
12. Sleep Disorder Comorbidities in Narcolepsy
13. Neuroimaging of Narcolepsy
14. Quality of Life and Psychosocial Issues in Narcolepsy: Implications for Management
15. Narcolepsy, Intimacy, and Sexuality
16. Memory and Cognition in Narcolepsy
17. Psychoanalysis and Narcolepsy
18. Dreaming in Narcolepsy
19. Narcolepsy and Mental Illness
20. Narcolepsy, Driving and Traffic Safety
21. Overview of Management of Narcolepsy
22. Modes of Action of Drugs Related to Narcolepsy: Pharmacology of Wake-Promoting Compounds and Anticataplectics
23. Modafinil/Armodafinil in the Treatment of Narcolepsy
24. Sodium Oxybate in the Treatment of Narcolepsy
25. Pregnancy and Anesthesia in Narcolepsy
26. Emerging Treatments for Narcolepsy
27. Behavioral and Non-pharmacological Management of Narcolepsy
28. Narcolepsy and Developmental Disability
29. Succeeding in School and in the Workplace with Narcolepsy
30. Medicolegal Aspects of Disability in Narcolepsy
31. The Affordable Care Act and the Future of Sleep Medicine