Meet the editors

Professor Fabian H. Rossi, MD, is the head of the Clinical Neurophysiology Laboratory at the Orlando VA Medical Center and an associate professor at the Department of Neurology, University of Central Florida Medical School, Orlando, Florida. His expertise is in clinical neurophysiology and he writes extensively on the subjects of sleep neurology and polysomnography, epilepsy and electroencephalography, and neuromuscular disorders,

nerve conduction studies, and electromyography. He held board certifications in each of the subspecialties of clinical neurophysiology. He has also contributed research in the field of motor neuron cultures and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. He has given multiple national and international lectures on several topics in clinical neurology. Dr. Rossi has received Teacher of the Year awards for excellence in medical education.

Nina Tsakadze, MD, Ph.D., is a board-certified neurologist and headache specialist. She is a director of the Headache Center of Excellence at the Orlando VA Medical Center and Associate Professor of Neurology at the University of Central Florida School of Medicine, Orlando, Florida. Her expertise is in headache medicine and general neurology, and she has authored multiple publications and presented at many national and international

meetings. In addition, Dr. Tsakadze has an impressive background in basic and clinical research related to molecular mechanisms of atherogenesis and thrombosis. She received an Excellence Award for her performance as a headache medicine fellow as well as several international awards, including a thrombosis fellowship at Mayo Clinic and a postdoctoral fellowship award from the American Heart Association.

Contents

**Section 1**

*by Murat Kayabekir*

Sleep Disorders and Epilepsy

*and Fabian Rossi*

REM-Behavior Disorder

Management

*by Fanyi Kong*

**Preface XI**

Sleep Neurology **1**

**Chapter 1 3**

**Chapter 2 27**

**Chapter 3 37**

**Chapter 4 51**

**Chapter 5 77**

**Chapter 6 85**

**Chapter 7 109**

Sleep and Orofacial Pain: Physiological Interactions and Clinical

*by Miguel Meira E. Cruz, Bruno Sousa and Antoon De Laat*

*by Michelle Nunes, Umesh Sharma, Nina Tsakadze, Lourdes Benes Lima, Mays Alani, Aqsa Ullah, Carlyn Rodriguez-Nazario, Joshua Rossi* 

The Relationship between Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis and Parkinson's Disease and Sleep Disorders: Pathophysiological and Clinical Approach *by Aqsa Ullah, Mays Alani, Omar Chaudry, Afra Janarious, Nina Tsakadze, Michele Nunes, Umesh Sharma, Lourdes Benes-Lima, Elisa Marie Rossi,* 

Sleep Physiology and Polysomnogram, Physiopathology

Comorbid Sleep Disorders and Headache Disorders *by Fabian Rossi, Carlyn Rodriguez-Nazario, Umesh Sharma, Lourdes Benes Lima, Joshua Rossi, Mays Alani, Michelle Nunes,* 

*Aqsa Ullah, Elisa Marie Rossi and Nina Tsakadze*

*Carlyn Rodriguez-Nazario and Fabian Rossi*

*by Ivia Rivera-Agosto and Anthony Izzo*

Sleep Disorder at High Altitude

and Symptomatology in Sleep Medicine
