Description:Preface; Foreword Tom Roth; 1. Epidemiology of sleepiness Maurice M. Ohayon; 2. Neurochemistry of excessive sleepiness Nishino Seihi and Okuro Masashi; 3. Functional neuroimaging of disorders of sleepiness Eric A. Nofzinger; 4. The clinical evaluation of patients with excessive sleepiness Imran Ahmed and Michael J. Thorpy; 5. Clinical objective measures of excessive sleepiness Michael H. Bonnet and Donna Arand; 6. Subjective measures of sleepiness Chris L. Drake; 7. Cognitive effects of sleepiness Hans P. Van Dongen; 8. Motor vehicle driving and excessive sleepiness Anna Anund and Goran Keckland; 9. Medico-legal consequences of excessive sleepiness Charles F. George; 10. Sleep deprivation David F. Dinges and Goel Namni; 11. Narcolepsy Gert Jan Lammers; 12. Idiopathic hypersomnia Michel Billiard; 13. Kleine-Levin Syndrome Isabelle Arnulf; 14. Menstrual related hypersomnia Fiona C. Baker; 15. Sleepiness due to sleep related breathing disorders Jean-Louis Pepin; 16. Sleepiness in insomnia Andrew D. Krystal; 17. Delayed and advanced sleep phase syndrome and sleepiness Scott S. Campbell and Patricia Murphy; 18. Shift worker disorder and sleepiness Torbjorn Akderstedt; 19. Sleepiness in health care workers Brian Abaluck and Christopher P. Landrigan; 20. Sleepiness and the military Tom Balkin; 21. Sleepiness and jet lag James Waterhouse; 22. Restless legs syndrome and periodic limb movements Clete A. Kushida; 23. Long sleepers Catherine S. Fichten; 24. Sleepiness in children Sanjeev Kothare and Joseph Kaleyias; 25. Depression and sleepiness Sarah L. Chellappa and Christian Cajochen; 26. Ageing, Alzheimer's disease and sleepiness Sonia Ancoli-Israel and Liat Anyalon; 27. Parkinson's disease and sleepiness David Rye; 28. Myotonic dystrophy and sleepiness Luc Laberge and Yves Dauvilliers; 29. Post-traumatic sleepiness Christian R. Baumann; 30. Genetic disorders and sleepiness Sona Nevsimalova; 31. Brain tumors, infections and other CNA causes of sleepiness Mari Viola-Saltzman and Nate F. Watson; 32. Hypothyroidism and other endocrine causes of sleepiness Hideto Shinno; 33. Toxic and metabolic causes of sleepiness Fabio Cirignotta and Fabio Pizza; 34. Excessive sleepiness due to medications and drugs Paula K. Schweitzer; 35. Amphetamines, methylphenidate and excessive sleepiness Una D. McCann; 36. Modafinil and armodafinil and excessive sleepiness Renee Monderer and Michael J. Thorpy; 37. Sodium oxybate and excessive sleepiness Neil Feldman; 38. Caffeine and other alerting agents William D. Killgore; 39. H3 antagonists, hypocretin agonists and other novel alerting agents Christian Guilleminault and Meredith Broderick; 40. Behavioral and psychiatric treatment of sleepiness Shelby Harris and Michael J. Thorpy; Index