Salim Surani, MD, MPH, MSHM, FACP, FAASM, FCCP, FCCM – Adjunct Clinical Professor of Medicine, Department of Pulmonary, Critical Care & Sleep Medicine, Texas A&M University, USA; Clinical Professor of Pharmacology at Texas A&M University Kingsville; Research Collaborator, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota; Corpus Christi, Texas, USA
Shyam Subramanian, MD, FCCP, FAASM, DABSM – Chief, Division of Pulmonary Critical Care Sleep Medicine, Sutter Gould Medical Foundation; Section Chief, Specialty Clinics, California, USA
Pahnwat Taweesedt, MD – Clinical Instructor, Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care, Faculty of Medicine, Thammasat University, Thailand and a Clinical Assistant Professor, Stanford University, California, USA

Series: Sleep – Physiology, Functions, Dreaming and Disorders; Health Care in Transition
BISAC: MED119000; MED045000; MED029000
DOI: https://doi.org/10.52305/OHEO0325

Sleep Disturbances: Causes, Consequences, and Strategies for Better Rest includes thirty chapters that discuss sleep at a functional level; consistently poor or interrupted sleep triggers widespread changes throughout the body, including increased inflammatory proteins, impaired blood sugar processing, disrupted hunger hormones, heightened nervous system activity, and damaged blood vessel function. This book is divided into seven sections. Section 1 discusses the basics of sleep. Section 2 comprises several chapters on OSA, hypersomnia, parasomnia, and movement disorders, discussing major sleep disorders. Section 3 focuses on sleep loss and its consequences, while understanding sleep deprivation and insufficient sleep syndrome. Section 4 focuses on the diagnosis and treatment of sleep disorders. Section 5 deals with sleep in patients with psychiatric and neurological disorders. Section 6 discusses sleep in patients with medical disorders. The last section focuses on public health, culture, and future directions, including the role of artificial intelligence in sleep medicine.