Sleep Loss and Obesity

Sleep Loss and Obesity: Intersecting Epidemics   represents a major contribution to the field of sleep medicine.  It is a comprehensive review of the neurobiology of sleep, circadian timing and obesity, the deleterious effects of sleep loss and obesity on health, and the worrisome associated social and medical costs in a range of patient populations and overall to society.   The number of individuals who are obese has reached alarming levels.  As a result, the incidence of Ty