Welcome to the Sleep Medicine Home Page
Last Updated October 12, 2005
This home page lists resources regarding all aspects of
sleep including, the physiology of sleep, clinical sleep medicine, sleep research,
federal and state information, patient information, and business-related groups.
If you have any additional sleep-related information appropriate for this listing
send me information by email.
Sleep-related Newsgroups and Discussion Groups
- Complimentary CME Activity: MANAGING SLEEP APNEA SYNDROME.
Web Cast on November 19, 2002 with enduring material available for
one year (ON-DEMAND, ON-LINE and/or CD ROM) - go to www.SleepTech.com for
more details.
- Video News Release of a study of NFL football players showing an increased
prevalence of obstructive sleep apnea, cited earlier this year in the New England Journal of Medicine. The complete study and results were just published in the July 2003 issue of Sleep Medicine.
Video News Release
- SLEEP-L Moderated. A sleep bulletin board for healthcare workers particularly sleep
specialists and researchers. Available through
subscription. Contact:j_Todd_Arnedt@brown.edu
- PEDSLEEP Moderated. Pediatric sleep list which covers developmental and clinical
sleep-related issues from birth to adolescence. The list is open to all medical and education
professionals involved in child-care. Available through subscription. Contact: Sadeh@ccsg.tau.ac.il
- DENTAL-SLEEP Moderated. Dental sleep list that provides
information for dentists who are working with oral appliance therapy for
snoring and sleep apnea. Available through subscription. Send SUBSCRIBE
DENTAL-SLEEP Firstname lastname Degree to listserv@dental.stat.com
- Sleep Technology Forum Polysomnography technology forum.
Available through subscription. Send Subscribe SLPTECH Your Name to
listserv@dartmouth.edu.
- Sleep Trainee Email Network (T-net) Bulletin board for trainees
at all levels within the field of sleep. Contact Phil Gerhman at
pgerhman@ucsd.edu for more information.
- The Behavioral Sleep Medicine Network Listerserver for
professionals in the field of Behavioral Sleep medicine. Send subsription
to majordomo@maillist.urmc.rochester.edu. Command: Subscribe Behavsleepmed
username@place.thingee.edu. Contact: Michael_Perlis@URMC.Rochester.edu.
- alt.dreams Dreams discussion group
- alt.dreams.lucid Lucid dreams discussion group
- alt.health.cfids-action Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Action Group (Moderated)
- alt.med.cfs Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Information.
- alt.med.fibromyalgia
Fibromyalgia information.
- alt.support.sleep-disorder Sleep disorders support group.
- alt.support.narcolepsy
Narcolepsy support group.
Sources of Information
- FAQ's
- FTP Sites
- Australian National SIDS
Database. FTP server. Directory
pub/sids. Annual report: annual.txt; autopsy protocol: proptocol.txt
SIDS death scene investigation: sidsproto.txt
- Miscellaneous Web Pages
- Abstracts
- Text Files
Alphabetical Listing of Sleep Disorders
Clinical Practice Parameters
Professional Associations
Sleep-related Foundations and Associated Organizations
Professional Journals and Books
Sleep Research Sites
- Center for Biological
Timing The Mystery of Sleepy Adolescents - online real-time research
project.
- Sleep
Research Laboratory, Loughborough University, UK
- A New Standard
for Integrating Polygraphic Recordings into a Comprehensive Model of Human
Sleep and its Validation in Sleep Disorders. Biomed-2, European
Commission research program.
- University
of Michigan School of Nursing Narcolepsy research and education site.
- Sleep Research
Center,
Oasi Institute for Research on Mental Retardation and Brain Aging, Troina,
Italy.
- Computational Models of
Sleep Spindles and Thalamic Cell Activity. Laval University School of
Medicine, Quebec
- Molecular
Onirology Laboratory Claude Bernard University, Lyon, France. Directed by
Prof. Michel Jouvet.
- Sleep Spindle
Research Dynamic Topography of Sleep Spindles.
- Section of Psychopharmacology
and Sleep Research University of Zurich - Institute of Pharmacology,
Switzerland
Federal and State Information
Sleep Education Sites
Medications and Neurotransmitters
Professional Meetings
Professional meetings related to sleep medicine can be listed here by
sending the appropriate information by
email Register for the Pickwick Reception at the Annual APSS meeting in Seatle, Sunday, June 9th at 7:30 p.m Ohio Sleep Medicine
Institute, Dublin, Ohio, September, 2002. Tel: 614-766-0773 or
email to: SleepOhio@aol.com
Sleep Disorders Centers
Sleep Disorder Centers or Laboratories, accredited or non-accredited, can
be listed here by sending an email
message with brief description and address information. Listing does not
necessarily imply endorsement.
- ARGENTINA
- The Instituto de Medicina del Sueno, Montevideo 725, Buenos
Aires, Argentina
- Departmento de Medicina del Sueno, Centro Neurologico - Hospital
Frances, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
- Sleep Disorder & Diagnostic Centre - Neurophysiology Lab., Capital
Federal, Buenos Aires, Argentina
- AUSTRIA
- Austrian
Sleep Research Association
Maintains a list of sleep disorder centers in Austria.
- Sleep Disorder Center, Pulmologic Center Vienna, Vienna,
Austria
- Department of Pulmonology, Elizabethinen Hospital, Linz
- AUSTRALIA
- Sleep Disorders Centre, Royal Prince Alfred Hospital, Camperdown
2050
- The Sleep Investigation Centre, North
West Private Hospital Everton Park, Brisbane
- The Sleep Investigation Centre, Sunnybank
Private Hospital Sunnybank, Brisbane
- Newcastle
Sleep Disorders Centre Newcastle
- Sir
Charles Gairdner Hospital, Nedlands, Western Australia
- Sydney Sleep Disorders Centre, Annandale, NSW
- Camperdown Sleep Disorders Center, Newtown, NSW
- Hornsby Sleep Disorders and Diagnostic Centre, Waitara, NSW
- Satellite Sleep Laboratory, Wentworthville, NSW
- Sleep Monitoring Unit, Benowa, QLD
- Central West Sleep Disorders Center, Orange, NSW
- South
Australian Sleep Disorders Centre, Repatriation General
Hospital, Daw Park, Adelaide, SA
- Sleep Disorders Centre, Royal Newcastle Hospital, Newcastle NSW
- Sleep Disorders Centre, Austin and Repatriation Medical Centre,
Heidelberg, Victoria
- ACT Sleep Therapy Clinic, Deakin, Canberra
- Sleep Disorders Laboratory, Malvern, Victoria
- Sleep Disorders Unit, St Vincents Hospital, Darlinghurst, Sydney
- BELGIUM
- Centrum voor Stoornissen van Slapen en Waken, University
Hospital, Ghent
- Sleep Laboratory, Maria Middlelares Ghent, Ghent,
- BRAZIL
- CANADA
- Royal Ottawa Sleep
Disorders Centre, Royal Ottawa Hospital, Ottawa.
- Sleep Disorders Centre of Metropolitan
Toronto Toronto, Barrie, Brampton,and Richmond Hill, Canada
- Sleep Insitute of
Ontario, North York, Ontario
- Quebec City Sleep Disorders Center, Saint Foy, Quebec
- Silent Partners Sleep Clinic, Toronto
- Sleep Disorders Centre, McMaster University Medical Centre,
Hamilton, Ontario
- The Wellesley Hospital Sleep Lab, The Wellesley Hospital, Toronto
- Northern Nights Sleep Disorder Centre, Thunder Bay, Ontario
- The Credit Valley Hospital Sleep Laboratory, Mississauga, Ontario
- Sleep Laboratory, Royal Victoria Hospital-McGill University Health
Centre, West Montreal, Quebec
- FINLAND
Sleep Disorders Clinic and Research Center, Haaga Center for
Neurological Research and Rehabilitation, Helsinki
- GERMANY
- GREAT BRITAIN
- Scottish National Sleep
Center Edinburgh, Scotland.
- Sleep Disorders Clinic, Leicester General Hospital, Leicester
- Sleep Centre, Papworth Hospital, Cambridge
- HONG KONG
- Sleep Assessment Unit, Department of Psychiatry, The Chinese
University of Hong Kong, Shatin NT
- IRELAND
- ISRAEL
- The
Institute for Fatigue and Sleep Medicine Tel Hashomer, Israel.
-
The Sleep Research Unit, Sorkoa Medical Center, Beer-Seva
- Technion
Sleep Laboratory, Gutwirth BLDG, Technion City, Haifa 3200
- Sleep Disorders Unit, Lowenstein Rehabilitation Hospital, Raanana
- Sleep Disorders Laboratory, Tel-Aviv University, Ramat Aviv
- ITALY
- Italian Association of Sleep
Medicine
- Centre for Sleep-Related Respiratory Disorders Universita di
Roma "La Sapienza", Roma, Italy
- Center for Pediatric Sleep Disorders, Dept. Developmental
Neurology
and Psychiatry, University of Rome "La Sapienza", Roma
- KOREA
- Department of Neurology, Samsung Medical Center, Kangnam Ku, Seoul
- LUXEMBOURG
- The NETHERLANDS
- Sleep Centre Westeinde Hospital, Den Haag
- Sleep Disorders Center, Hospital "de Gelderse Vallei", Ede
- NEW ZEALAND
- PHILLIPINES
- Sleep Disorders Center, Makati Medical Center, Makati City,
Phillipines. Tel: 632-8159911
- Comprehensive Sleep Disorders Center, St. Lukes Medical Center,
Quezon City, Philippines. Tel 632-727-5559
- RUSSIA
- I.M.Sechenovs Institute of Evolutionary Physiology,
Sankt-Petersburg
- SAUDI ARABIA
- Sleep Disorders Center, College of Medicine, King Khalid University
Hospital, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
- SOUTH AFRICA
- Smith & Vermaak Sleep Laboratory, Rosepark Hospital,
Bloemfontein
- Division of Pulmonology, Universitas Hospital,
Bloemfontein
- Respiratory Clinic, Groote Schuur Hospital, Cape Town
- Sleep Disorders Center, Entabeni Medical Centre North, Durban
- Neurodiagnostic Laboratories, Muelmed Medical Centre, Pretoria
- SleepWake Sleep Disorders Centre, Johannesburg, South Africa
- EEG and Sleep laboratory, City Hospital, Durban, South Africa
- SPAIN
- Unidad del Sueno Infantil, Clinica Quiron Valencia, Valencia
- Unidad de Sueno y Video-EEG, Servico de Neurofisiologia Clinic,
Hospital Virgen de las Nieves, Granada, Spain
- SWEDEN
- Sleep Unit, Department of Clinical Neuroscience, Sahlgren's
University Hospital, Goteborg
- Sleep Laboratory, Avesta Hospital, Avesta
- SWITZERLAND
- Sleep Disorders Center, HUG-Neuropsychiatry Division, 1225
Chene-Bourg
- Sleep Disorders Center,
Hirslanden Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
- TAIWAN
- Sleep Center of Chang-Gung Memorial Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan
- THAILAND
- Sleep Disorders Service and Research Unit, Songkhla
- UNITED ARAB EMIRATES
- URUGUAY
- Unidad de Estudio de Trastornornos del Sueno y la Vigilia, Hospital
Britanico, Montevideo
- Laboratory del Sueno, Hospital Italiano, Montevideo
- USA
For a complete list of Sleep Disorder Centers and Laboratories accredited
by the American Academy of Sleep Medicine click here
- Alabama:
- Sleep Disorders Center,
Knollwoodpark Hospital, Mobile, Alabama
- Sleep Disorders Laboratory, Helen Keller Hospital, Sheffield,
Alabama
- Institute of Sleep
Medicine, Birmingham, Alabama, Tel: 1-800-874-4948
- Alaska:
- Arkansas:
- Superior Sleep Services LLC, Little Rock, Arkansas
- California:
-
Sleep Disorders Center, University of California San Francisco San
Francisco, California
- Mercy Sleep Laboratory, Carmichael, California.
- Scripps Clinic and California Monitoring
La Jolla, California
- Sequoia Sleep Disorders
Center, Redwood City, California.
- Pacific Sleep Medicine
Services Redlands, La Jolla, and Los Angeles, California
- Sleep Disorders Center, Huntington Memorial Hospital, Pasadena,
California
- Sleep Disorders Medical Group, Oceanside, California
- Stanford Sleep Disorders Clinic, Stanford, California
- Century City Sleep Disorders Center, Los Angeles, California
- Colorado:
- The Eastern Connecticut Sleep Program at Windham Hospital, Willimantic, CT
- Connecticut:
- Sleep Disorders laboratory, Manchester Memorial Hospital,
Manchester, Connecticut
- Yale Center for Sleep Disorders, Yale University School of
Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut.
- The Sleep Disorders Center, New Britain General Hospital, New
Britain, Connecticut
- Delaware:
- Distric of Columbia:
- Sleep Disorders Center, Georgetown
University Medical Center, Washington, DC
- Florida:
- Sleep
Disorder Center, Plantation, Florida
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Sleep Disorders Center of Southwest Florida , Naples, Florida
- Brevard Center fo Sleep Disorders, Rockledge, Florida
- Orlando Sleep Disorders Center, Orlando, Florida
- Orlando Regional Sleep Center, Orlando, Florida
- Tallahassee Sleep Disorder Center, Tallahassee, Florida
- Sleep Disorders Center, University of Miami School of Medicine,
Miami
- Suncoast Sleep Disorders Center, Charlotte Regional Medical
Center, Punta Gorda, Florida
- Sleep-Wake Disorders Center of
South Florida, Miami, Florida
- Sleep-Wake Disorders Center of
South Forida, Pembroke Pines, Florida
- Comprehensive Sleep Disorder Center, Orlando, Florida. Tel:
407-898-4600
- Bay Area Sleep Diagnostic Center, Tampa, FL. Tel
1-800-797-7533
- Georgia:
- Hawaii:
- Idaho:
- Idaho Sleep Disorders Laboratory, Boise, Idaho
- Illinois:
- Sleep
Disorders Center, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois
- Sleep Disorders Center, Lutheran General Hospital, Park Ridge,
Illinois
- Sleep Disorders Center, Evanston Hospital, Evanston, Illinois
- Indiana:
- Iowa:
- Jennie Edmunson Sleep Lab, Council Bluffs, Iowa
- Kansas:
- Menninger Sleep Disorder Clinic, Topeka, Kansas
- Kentucky:
- Louisiana:
- Sleep Disorders Center of Louisiana, Lake Charles, Louisiana
- R.E.M. Sleep lab, Metairie, Louisiana
- Maine:
- Maryland:
- Massachusetts:
- The Deaconess Glover Hospital Sleep Disorders Center, Needham,
Massachusetts. Tel 781-453-3617
- Center for Sleep Diagnostics, Chestnut Hill,
Massachusetts
- Sleep Disorders Laboratory, Falmouth Hospital, Falmouth,
Massachusetts
- Sleep Disorders Laboratory, Southcoast Hospitals Group, St.
Lukes, New Bedford, Massachusetts
- Michigan:
- Minnesota:
- Mayo Clinic Sleep Disorders Center, Mayo Foundation, Rochester,
Minnesota
- Sleep Diagnostic Center, St Joseph's Hospital, St. Paul,
Minnesota
- Mississippi:
- Missouri:
- Montana:
- Bozeman Deaconess Sleep Disorders Center, Bozeman, Montana
Tel: 406-585-5058
- Nebraska:
- Nevada:
- New Hampshire:
- Sleep-Wake Disorders Center, Hampstead
Hospital, Hampstead, New Hampshire
- New Jersey:
- Center for
Sleep Medicine, Raritan Bay Medical Center, New Jersey
- Sleep Disorders Center,
Newark Beth Israel Hospital, Newark, New Jersey
- The Sleep Center,
Cooper Hospital, University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey,
Camden, New Jersey
- Comprehensive Sleep Disorders Center, Robert Wood Johnson
University Hospital, New Brunswick, New Jersey
- SleepCare Center, Cherry Hill, New Jersey
- New Mexico:
- New York:
- Sleep-Wake Disorders
Center, Montefiore Medical Center, Bronx, New York.
- Center For Sleep Medicine New York, New York
- Sleep Disorders
Center, Columbia University , New York, New York.
- Sleep Disorders Center, Long Island Jewish Medical Center, New
Hyde Park, New York
- Sleep-Wake Disorders Center, New York Hospital Westchester
Division, White Plains, New York
- Sleep Disorders Center, Winthrop Hospital, Mineola, New York
- North Carolina:
- Sleep Unlimited of North Carolina, Sanford, NC
- Carolina Pulmonary and Comprehensive Sleep Center, Shelby, North
Carolina
- North Dakota:
- Ohio:
- Oklahoma:
- Oregon:
- Sleep Disorders Center, Sacred Heart Medical center, Eugene,
Oregon Tel: 541-686-7224
- Sleep Laboratory, Portal Providence Medical Center, Portland,
Oregon. Tel: 1-503-215-6552
- Sleep Disorders medicine
Program, Oregon Health Sciences University, Portland, Oregon. Tel:
1-503-494-6066
- Pennsylvania:
- Sleep Disorders
Center Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
- Sleep Disorders Center, Crozer-Chester Medical Center, Upland, Pennsylvania
- The Western Pennsylvania Center for Sleep Disorders, Pittsburgh,
Pennsylvania
- Sacred Heart Sleep Disorders Center, Allentown,
Pennsylvania. Tel: 610-776-5336
- Rhode Island:
- South Carolina:
- Sleep
Disorders Centers of America , Columbia, South Carolina.
- Sleep Disorder Center of America, Columbia, South Carolina
- Sleep Disorders/ Carolina Sleep Consultants, Rock Hill, South
Carolina
- Southeast Regional Sleep Disorders Center, Greenville, South
Carolina
- South Dakota:
- Sleep Disorders Center, Sioux Valley
Hospital, Sioux Falls, South Dakota
- Tennessee:
- Sleep
Disorders Center, St. Mary's Hospital, Knoxville, Tennessee
- Sleep Disorders Center, Baptist Hospital of East
Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee
- The Sleep Center, University of Tenessee, Knoxville,
Tenessee
Regional Sleep Center/Memorial Hospital, Chattanooga, Tenessee
- Texas:
- Apnix Sleep Diagnostics. Bellaire, Texas
- The Houston Sleep Center,Houston, Texas
- Texas
Tech Comprehensive Sleep Program, Lubbock, Texas
- Sleep Disorders Center of
Central Texas, Austin, Texas
- NW Houston Sleep Center, Houston, Texas.
- Sleep and Seizure Centers of South Texas, Inc., Corpus Christi,
Texas
- Sleep Medicine Institute, Dallas, Texas
- Wilford Hall USAF Sleep Disorders Center, Lackland AFB, San
Antonio, Texas
- Sleep Disorders Center, Columbia Spring Branch Medical Center,
Houston, Texas
- Utah:
- Salt Lake Regional Medcial Center Sleep Lab, Salt Lake City,
Utah
- Vermont:
- Virginia:
- Washington:
- Puget Sound Sleep Disorders Center, Seattle,
Washington
- West Virginia:
- Virginia Carolina Sleep Disorders Center,
Danville, Virginia
- Sleep Disorders Center, St. Mary's Hospital, Huntington, West
Virginia. Tel: 304-526-1880
- Wisconsin:
- Berlin Hospital Sleep Disorders Lab, Green Bay, Wisconsin Tel:
920-433-7451
- Froedert Center for Sleep, Medical Collge of Wisconsin,
Milwaukee, Wisconsin
- Wyoming:
Brochures, Pamphlets and other Printed Literature
Sleep-related literature mainly available free of charge, except for bulk
orders when a charge per item may be required.
-
Restless Legs Syndrome and Periodic Limb Movement Disorder -
HealthPartners (managed healthcare organization) Brochure
- "Wake Up!" brochure Information on sleep and drowsiness and
driving safety. Available free of charge from the AAA Foundation For
Traffic Safety. Fax: 202-683-5943.
- Narcolepsy Video featuring the clinical symptoms, genetics,
diagnosis, effects of narcolepsy and support groups.(Individuals $22)
Narcolepsy newsletter, "Perspectives", also available. Available from the
Narcolepsy Institute, Montefiore Medical Center, 111 East 210 Street,
Bronx, NY 10467. Phone 718-920-6799.
Sleep Book Reviews
Book Reviews
Lay publication sleep
book reviews, by Lynne Lamberg.
Business Organizations
Sleep-related professional and public business information can be listed
here by sending an email message with
relevant information. Listing does not necessarily imply endorsement.
- Professional Business Information
- * LifeSleep Systems, Inc.,
PillowPositive. Positional Sleep Aid, indicated for the reduction of
symptoms associated with mild obstructive sleep apnea and reduction of
snoring.
- * Cephalon - Provigil Site
Medical recently approved for the treatment of Narcolepsy .
- * Neuro Supplies, Inc.
Source for supplies used in performing sleep studies and other
electrodiagnostic testing.
- * Ambulatory
Monitoring Inc. Actigraphy
-
Sleep Instructional videocassette on the importance of sleep, for
schools - grades 4,5,6.
-
Encyclopaedia of Sleep and Sleep Disorders
By Michael Thorpy MD and Jan Yager PhD. A Comprehensive reference book on
Sleep and Sleep Disorders. Facts on File Inc., New York, 2001.
- Sleeping
Well A Source book for the general
public on Sleep and Sleep Disorders, by Michael Thorpy MD and Jan
Yager PhD. Checkmark Books, New York, 2001
- SleepMultiMedia
Version 2000 - A
computerized textbook of sleep medicine. Now with multiple illustrations
of the program!
- SleepGen Version 4.0
-The
Polysomnography Patient Data Entry Form and Report Generator.
- SleepLine Aries Systems
Corp., Medline CD-ROM
- Phantom of the Night
Book and other information
- ResMed - (formerly ResCare)
Manufacturer of CPAP machines.
- B.S. Degree in Polysomnography
California College for Health Sciences.
- Atlanta School of Sleep Medicine
and Technology
- SleepLab Software Ltd.
SleepTechChek - Software to show inter-scorer concordance on scoring raw
polysomnographic record data.
- Programs in Preventitive and
Behavioral Sleep Medicine
- Public Business Information
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