| I am indebted to many people for their support, ideas, information and encouragement, especially Caitlin Kraft Buchman and Tanya Adler. |
| My thanks to the following people for providing specialized sleep information: Gregory Mader of the American Sleep Disorders Association; Morgan Hughes, staff coordinator, Emory Sleep Disorders Center; Phyllis Herman, Keats Publishing; Karen Di Bernardo; Jeffery B. Blumberg, Ph.D. |
| Sleep is a profound, complex specialty, and I am greatly indebted to the research, comments and views of the following sleep experts: Donald Bliwise, M.D., Richard Ferber, M.D., Peter J. Hauri, Ph.D., Professor Peretz Lavie, Ph.D., Ronald E. Dahl, M.D., Virgil Wooten, M.D., Sonia Ancoli-Israel, Ph.D., Mark Rosekind, Ph.D., Wallace Mendelson, M.D., Mary Carskadon, Ph.D., Amy R. Wolfson, Ph.D., Jerry Rosen, M.D., Richard Wurtman, M.D., William Dement, M.D., Ph.D., Timothy Monk, Ph.D., Deepak Chopra, M.D. |
| I thank the following people for sharing interesting sleep stories and/or sleep experiences: Betty Sue Eaton, Caitlin Kraft Buchman, Ann Reit, Jerry Dincin, Barbara Rubin, Ph.D., Elyse Sommer, Judge Jarred Siegal, Barbara Seaman, Jane Wilson, Arnold Nash, Nena O'Neil, Zola Dincin Schneider, Michael Richards, Rose Robbins, Thomas Culhane, Judy Feiffer, Cynthia Medalie, Doe Lang, Ph.D., Jonathan Thorpe, Janice LaRouche, Daniel Hales, Barbara Gordon, Alan Pomerantz, Ph.D., Sandra Weiner, Fran Klein, Michael Locke, Ph.D., Costanza Biocco, Catlin Adams, Scott Crawford, Maryann Clarke, Linda Geiser, Helga Shepard, James Griffith, Claire Gerus, Harley Warner, Anne Sellaro, Wallace Cornell, Pierre Van Meenen, Lynn Bien. |
| I want to thank my many friends for their support despite the demands put upon me by multiple projects and Carol Williams of the legal department of the Authors Guild, Robin Rue of the Anita Diamant Agency and my canny Scotsman, Don McKay, Esq. |
| I thank Norman Goldfind, president of Keats, for arranging for me to attend the Nashville sleep conference; Donald Bensen, editor-in-chief of Keats, for his easy attitude; and my editor, Susan E. Davis, for understanding the significance and thrust of this book. |
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