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Excellent resource for a sleep medicine specialist, December 21, 2011
I found this book most helpful as i educated myself to become a specialist in Sleep Medicine and particularly helpful in preparing for my board certification examination. It provided a very good solution to the problems associated with short "pocket" manuals and encyclopedic reference texts. Although one may not find much information about sleep in aquatic mammals in this book, it's really a great choice if one wants to learn how to provide care to human beings with sleep disorders. The price is excellent too.
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Pseudointellectual clinical garbage, October 17, 2011
This review is from: Clinical Sleep Disorders (Hardcover)
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.
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