Polysomnographic recording technique / Sudhansu Chokroverty and Sushanth Bhat -- Electroencephalography for the sleep specialists / Sudhansu Chokroverty, Eli S. Neiman, and Sushanth Bhat -- Sleep stages and scoring technique / Raman K. Malhotra and Alon Y. Avidan -- Sleep-disordered breathing and scoring / Robert J. Thomas, Sudhansu Chokroverty, and Sushanth Bhat -- Basic circadian rhythms and circadian sleep disorders / Roneil Malkani and Phyllis C. Zee -- Hypnogram analysis / Robert J. Thomas, Sudhansu Chokroverty, and Sushanth Bhat -- Sleep-related movements and scoring techniques / Birgit Hogl and Raffaele Ferri -- Cardiac arrhythmias / Robert J. Thomas, Sudhansu Chokroverty, and Sushanth Bhat -- Uncommon, atypical, and often unrecognized PSG patterns / Sudhansu Chokroverty, Sushanth Bhat, and Robert J. Thomas -- Motor disorders during sleep / Sudhansu Chokroverty, Marco Zucconi, Federica Provini, and Mauro Manconi -- Sleep and epilepsy / Marco Zucconi and Sudhansu Chokroverty -- Sleep dysfunction and sleep-disordered breathing in miscellaneous neurological disorders / Sudhansu Chokroverty, Sushanth Bhat, and Federica Provini -- Neuroimaging techniques / Thien Thanh Dang-Vu, Pierre Maquet, and Martin Desseilles -- Specialized techniques: multiple sleep latency testing / Sudhansu Chokroverty, Actigraphy / Sudhansu Chokroverty and Marco Zucconi, Recommendations for practical use of pulse transit time as a tool for respiratory effort measurements during sleep and microarousal recognition / Jean-Louis Pepin, Renaud Tamisier, and Patrick Levy, The cyclic alternating pattern / Mario Giovanni Terzano, Liborio Parrino, Fernando De Paolisi, and Elena Colizzi, Peripheral arterial tonometry / Robert J. Thomas, The electrocardiogram-spectrogram / Robert J. Thomas -- Positive pressure titration / Robert J. Thomas -- Oral appliances and surgical techniques for obstructive sleep apnea syndrome therapy / John A. Fleetham and Fernanda R. Almeida -- Pediatric polysomnography / Timothy F. Hoban.