Enchanted World of Sleep - Softcover

Peretz Lavie

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0788197983 ISBN 13: 9780788197987

Publisher: Yale Univ. Press, 1996

Draws upon a vast store of professional knowledge & innovative concepts of the physiology of sleep & dreams to tell us the story of what is contained in a single night s sleep. Some chapters include: sleep & death; brain waves; the rhythm of sleep; the 25-hour day; from sun clocks to biological clocks; dreams: creatures of the brain; dreaming as a separate reality; the need for sleep; the eccentricity of REM sleep; sleep centers; sleep medicine: the first steps; treating insomnia; the physical & medical causes of insomnia; disorders in sleep timing; children who refuse to sleep; excessive sleepiness; & narcolepsy: reversal of the natural order. Illustrated.

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