The enchanted world of sleep /

Why do we sleep? How much sleep do we really need? What causes sleep disorder-and what can be done about them? We have all puzzled over-or been plagued by-the mysteries of sleep. Now a leading researcher provides an engaging and informative introduction that answers many of our most baffling questio...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Lavie, P. (Peretz), 1949-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Hebrew
Published: New Haven : Yale University Press, ©1996.
Subjects:
Sleep > Popular works.
Sleep disorders > Popular works.
Sleep.
Sleep disorders.
Sleep
Sleep Wake Disorders
Sommeil > Ouvrages de vulgarisation.
Troubles du sommeil > Ouvrages de vulgarisation.
Sommeil.
Troubles du sommeil.
MEDICAL > Neuroscience.
PSYCHOLOGY > Neuropsychology.
Slaap.
Human Anatomy & Physiology.
Health & Biological Sciences.
Neuroscience.
Popular works.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Foreword / Michael Jouvet
  • Introduction
  • Sleep and death
  • Brain waves
  • Nathaniel Kleitman
  • The rhythm of sleep
  • The twenty-five hour day
  • From sun clocks to biological clocks
  • Dreams : creatures of the brain
  • Alfred Maury and the dream of the guillotine
  • Dreaming as a separate reality
  • Do fish dream?
  • The need for sleep
  • The eccentricity of REM sleep
  • Sleep centers
  • Sleep medicine : the first steps
  • Treating insomnia
  • The physical and medical causes of insomnia
  • Disorders in sleep timing
  • Children who refuse to sleep
  • Excessive sleepiness, or "In the arms of Morpheus"
  • Narcolepsy : reversal of the natural order
  • Epilogue
  • References
  • Index.

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