Sleep-Wake Neurobiology and Pharmacology

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

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3030112705
• ISBN13: 9783030112707
• Release Date: September 2019
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 481 Pages
• Weight: 1.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.1" x 9.2"