This comprehensive book addresses all elements of the autonomic nervous system (ANS) and sleep interaction, as well as ANS alterations in sleep and how these impact primary and comorbid sleep dysfunction. It meets the market need for a comprehensive text that deals with ANS changes in sleep and how these impact various neurological, medical, and primary sleep disorders. 

Organized into three parts, the book begins with a review of the foundational bodily systems that participate in coordination of ANS activity with other homeostatic responses such as respiration, cardiovascular reflexes, and responses to stress. Part two then examines methods of laboratory evaluation and the "why, when, how" of interpreting heart rate variability in sleep. To conclude, the final section of the book broadly covers the many clinical aspects of ANS, including insomnia, restless leg syndrome, sleep apnea, sleep related epilepsy, and acute autonomic neuropathy.

Autonomic Nervous System and Sleep enhances the reader's understanding of the pathophysiology of various disorders, and explains how to apply this profound understanding is important to new lines of therapy to improve morbidity.

Chapter 1. Introduction

Part I: BASICS.-Chapter 2. Central Autonomic Network.- Chapter 3. Functional Neuroanatomy of the Peripheral Autonomic Nervous System
Chapter 4. Functional Neuroanatomy and Mechanism of Sleep.-Chapter 5. Physiological Changes in the Autonomic Nervous System during Sleep.- Chapter 6. Brain-Heart Interaction: Cardiovascular Reflexes
Chapter 7. Sleep and Circadian Regulation of the Autonomic Nervous System
Chapter 8. Nocturnal Arousal Phenomenon and the Autonomic Nervous System
PART II LABORATORY EVALUATION
Chapter 9. Methods of Laboratory Evaluation of the Autonomic Nervous System in Wakefulness and Sleep
Chapter 10. Interpreting Heart Rate Variability in Sleep: Why, When, How?
Chapter 11. Laboratory Evaluation of Sleep Disorders: PSG, MSLT, MWT, and Actigraphy
PART III CLINICAL ASPECTS.-Chapter 12. An Approach to a Patient with Suspected Autonomic Failure and Sleep Dysfunction
Chapter 13. Obstructive Sleep Apnea in Adults and theAutonomic Nervous System
Chapter 14. Primary Insomnia and Dysautonomia
Chapter 15. Restless Leg Syndrome, Periodic Limb Movements, ad Dysautonomia
Chapter 16. NREM-Related Parasomnias and Dysautonomia
Chapter 17. Narcolepsy, Idiopathic Hypersomnia, and Dysautonomia
Chapter 18. Fatal Familial Insomnia
Chapter 19.Sleep-Related Epilepsy, Dysautonomia, and Sudden Nocturnal Death
Chapter 20. The Postural Tachycardia Syndrome (PoTS)
Chapter 21. Congenital Central Hypoventilation Syndrome
Chapter 22. Autonomic Dysfunction in Parasomnias of REM Sleep
Chapter 23. Multiple System Atrophy
Chapter 24. Pure Autonomic Failure
Chapter 25. Acute Autonomic Neuropathy
Chapter 26. Familial Dysautonomia
Chapter 27. Diabetic Autonomic Neuropathy
Chapter 28. Spinal Cord Lesion and Dysautonomia
Chapter 29. Dysautonomia and Sleep Dysfunction in Pediatric Practice
Chapter 30. Autonomic Regulation of Sleep-Related Gastrointestinal Function.