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A Clinical Guide to Pediatric Sleep: Diagnosis and Management of Sleep Problems

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I have read both editions of this new clinical guide. It is a "must" for primary care givers and sleep specialists. Very conscise and with useful highlights.
The online tools that can be used as handouts to patients are also useful as education material.

I work in pediatric research, and have found this book to be incredibly valuable. It does a great job explaining the science behind pediatric sleep -- sleep architecture, the neuroendocrine regulation of sleep, how neuroanatomy plays in, etc. It also goes through common childhood and adolescent sleep problems, including prevention, diagnosis, and treatment for each. And all of the information in the book is broken down by different developmental stages -- going through the differences between infants, toddlers, preschoolers, school-aged children, and adolescents. The book manages to be clear and concise without being dumbed down, but it is still accessible enough that I can hand it to my new research assistants to read for a general overview of the field. I think the book would be especially useful for pediatric primary care providers -- both the book itself and the patient handouts and questionnaires you can access online (using the code inside the book) include some great clinical tools.

As another reviewer noted below, there are some hiccups here and there in the index, where it seems to refer to non-existent pages. However, with the book you also get access to a full web-based version of the book online -- and being able to keyword search on that is far better than any index, at least for me. Especially since I loan this book out to staff and colleagues so often, it is great to also have access to the web ebook version.

I just received the book today. The information is well organized, well presented, and very relevant. However, the book ends at page 232, which is the last page of the index. I found many index topics cited with page numbers that do not exist. One example is on page 232 in the index for "weekend oversleep" listing pages 35, 145, 236, 238. Page 231 of the index lists "snacks" on pages 46, 237-238. I just don't understand this problem, unless the numbers reflect the supplemental information on the website.

In my search for a good background source of literature on insomnia I got my hands on the entire subject collection at our local university.

This book is a large authoritatively looking volume (as most other books listed below). I scanned through the chapters, index and contents - there's not a word about one of the most common causes of insomnia - metal neurotoxicity. Not a word! Not a word about mercury, cadmium, thallium etc.

Instead this "clinical" book is just a worthless collection of useless, diagnostically unhelpful facts regarding every single aspect of sleep. There's little about "DIAGNOSIS" and everything about which drugs to push on you.

If you are a medical student or a medical professional who are examined in this field - go ahead with it. Otherwise, the book is as shocking as the value of advice you will likely to get from qualified practitioners - they will regurgitate whatever they remember from these useless books mindlessly learned back in their university days. But it's Garbage-In-Garbage-out, that's it.

The complete list of garbage this review applies to:

Sleep and Sleep Disorders:: A Neuropsychopharmacological Approach - Malcolm Lader
Sleep: A Comprehensive Handbook - Teofilo L. Lee-Chiong
Understanding Sleep and Dreaming - William H. Moorcroft
Insomnia: A Clinician's Guide to Assessment and Treatment - Charles M. Morin
Clinical Handbook of Insomnia (Current Clinical Neurology - Hrayr P. Attarian
100 Q&A About Sleep and Sleep Disorders, Second Edition (100 Questions & Answers about . . . - Sudhansu Chokroverty
Clinician's Guide to Sleep Disorders (Neurological Disease and Therapy - Nathaniel F. Watson
A Clinical Guide to Pediatric Sleep: Diagnosis and Management of Sleep Problems - Jodi A. Mindell
Clinician's Guide to Pediatric Sleep Disorders - Mark Richardson
Sleep and Movement Disorders - Sudhansu Chokroverty
Clinical Sleep Disorders - Paul R. Carney
A Clinical Guide to Sleep Disorders in Children and Adolescents - Gregory Stores
Insomnia and Other Adult Sleep Problems (The Facts - Gregory Stores
Sleep Disorders: Diagnosis and Therapeutics - S. R. Pandi-Perumal

For the total cost of $1680 on amazon.com.