Why we sleep : the new science of sleep and dreams / Matthew Walker
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TextPublication details: United Kingdom : Penguin Books, c2017. Description: 358 p. : ill. ; 20 cmISBN: 9780141983769DDC classification: 612.821 WAL
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| 612.82 GOL The wisdom paradox : how your mind can grow stronger as your brain grows older / | 612.82 HAW A thousand brains : a new theory of intelligence / | 612.82 RES The secret life of the brain / | 612.821 WAL Why we sleep : the new science of sleep and dreams / | 612.821 WAL Why we sleep : the new science of sleep and dreams / | 612.8233 BAN Cognitive neuroscience / | 612.8233 BAN Cognitive neuroscience / |
CONTENT INCLUDES:
Part 1. This thing called sleep
To sleep ...
Caffeine, jet lag, and melatonin: losing and gaining control of your sleep rhythm
Defining and generating sleep: time dilation and what we learned from a baby in 1952
Ape beds, dinosaurs, and napping with half a brain: who sleeps, how do we sleep, and how much?
Changes in sleep across the life span
Part 2. Why should you sleep?
Your mother and Shakespeare knew: the benefits of sleep for the brain
Too extreme for the Guinness Book of World Records: sleep deprivation and the brain
Cancer, heart attacks, and a shorter life: sleep deprivation and the body
Part 3. How and why we dream
Routinely psychotic: REM-sleep dreaming
Dreaming as overnight therapy
Dream creativity and dream control
Part 4. From sleeping pills to society transformed
Things that go bump in the night: sleep disorders and death caused by no sleep
iPads, factory whistles, and nightcaps: what's stopping you from sleeping?
Hurting and helping your sleep: pills vs. therapy
Sleep and society: what medicine and education are doing wrong; what Google and NASA are doing right
A new vision for sleep in the twenty-first century
Conclusion : To sleep or not to sleep
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