Designed primarily as a text this volume is an up-to-date and integrated overview of physiological sleep mechanisms, brain function, psychological ramifications of sleep, dimensions of dreaming, and clinical disorders associated with sleep. It is accessibly written with specially boxed material that enhances the text. Authored by a researcher/clinician/professor with more than 25 years of experience in sleep studies, Understanding Sleep and Dreaming provides a solid basis for those who are not expert in this area. It offers a good foundation for those who will continue sleep studies, while at the same time offering enough information for those who will apply this knowledge in other ways such as clinicians in their individual practices or researchers for whom sleep may be part of a specific study. It is an excellent text for courses on sleep at the undergraduate and graduate levels.
Tabella dei contenuti
Prologue: Visit To A Sleep and Dreams Lab Part I: SLEEP AND SLEEPING 1. What Is Sleep and How Is It Scientifically Measured? 2. The Need to Sleep 3. Normal Variations of Sleep Part II: WHAT CAUSES US TO SLEEP? 4. The Brain in Sleep 5. The Body During Sleep Section III: DREAMS AND DREAMING 6. Dreams 7. Dreaming 8. Theories of Dreams and Dreaming Section IV: PROBLEMS WITH SLEEP AND DREAMING 9. Some Difficulties That People May Have With Sleep 10. Disorders of Sleep, Part 1 11. Disorders of Sleep, Part 2 Section V: WHY WE SLEEP AND DREAM 12. Functions of Sleep and NREMS 13. Functions of REMS and Dreaming. Epilogue Notes References IndexAltri ebook dello stesso autore / Editore
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