The clinical course of nicotine dependence, nicotine withdrawal and smoking cessation varies significantly between men and women smokers. Recent re...

This book examines the risk factors, challenges and health implications of obesity. Topics include the implications for behavioural solutions to we...

Proceedings of the 3rd European Congress on Obesity, Nice, France, 1991.

The Medicare program serves as the healthcare coverage provider to over 58 million beneficiaries. In serving the over age 65 population, Medicare a...

Dreams are reported from all of stages of sleep. Yet almost all research and literature has focused on REM sleep. Much of what we know of dreaming ...

An estimated 6.5 million individuals currently abuse prescription drugs in the United States. Unlike policy on street drugs, federal policy on pres...

Obesity is officially recognised as a major worldwide public health problem. "Progress in Obesity Research: 9" fulfils the need for an accessible a...

Sleep apnea or sleep apnoea is a sleep disorder characterised by pauses in breathing during sleep. These episodes, called apneas (literally, "witho...

Patients undergoing bariatric surgery are special subjects, as they present several features that convert them into high-risk patients, despite oft...

Rapid eye movement sleep (REM sleep) is a normal stage of sleep characterised by the random movement of the eyes. REM sleep is classified into two ...

The concept of recovery lies at the core of the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA's) mission, and fostering the dev...

Text in English & French. Proceedings of the Symposium on Sleep and Cardiorespiratory Control held in Kremlin-Bicêtre (France), 12-13 September...

Sleep apnea or sleep apnoea is a sleep disorder characterised by pauses in breathing during sleep. These episodes, called apneas (literally, "witho...

In the western social structures the number permanently increases sleep more disturbedly. So already suffer more than 10% of the population from sl...

Obstructive sleep apnea is a disorder characterised by repetitive, complete or partial closure of the upper airway during sleep. Many factors, incl...

This book delves into the uncovered world of sleep in patients affected by neurological disorders and further explores those night hours that may b...

Sleep breathing disorders represent one of the most important factors that influence prognosis in critical patients, directly as an initial cause o...

Sleep can be viewed as a brain state, as a process and a behavior. As any of these, sleep serves several purposes, including energy restoration, im...

Smoking is the most common risk factor for the development of lung cancer, which is the leading cause of cancer death. It is also associated with m...

Snoring is a common symptom of airway obstruction, which is included in the spectrum of sleep-related breathing disorders. The manifestation may oc...

Social drinking refers to casual drinking in a social setting without an intent to get drunk. Social drinking plays an important (but not tradition...

Speech disorders or speech impediments, as they are also called, are a type of communication disorder where 'normal' speech is disrupted. This can ...