Understanding Sleep and Dreaming (eBook)
XVI, 340 Seiten
Springer US (Verlag)
978-0-387-28698-3 (ISBN)
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.
Although sleep has been the subject of serious study for several decades, there has not been available an integrated, introductory text for more than ten years. Understanding Sleep and Dreaming fills this need with complete coverage of all aspects of sleep, dreaming, and sleep disorders, and is comprehensible as well as comprehensive. In accessible language, this text reviews the basic physiological mechanisms of sleep and the intertwined psychological ramifications. Most important, it is up-to-date, containing the latest information on the influence of orexin/hypocretin, nocturnal eating syndrome, the local cell theory of sleep, the effects of sleep deprivation, and the advantages of delaying school start times for teenagers. Distilling twenty five years of combined clinical, research, and teaching experience, Dr. Moorcroft has created an excellent text for undergraduates, graduate students, and professionals as well as for the general reader who wants a better understanding of the sleep process and its disorders.
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
Index
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 4.9.2006 |
|---|---|
| Mitarbeit |
Assistent: P. Belcher |
| Zusatzinfo | XVI, 340 p. |
| Verlagsort | New York |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Biopsychologie / Neurowissenschaften |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Klinische Psychologie | |
| Medizin / Pharmazie ► Medizinische Fachgebiete ► Psychiatrie / Psychotherapie | |
| Medizin / Pharmazie ► Studium | |
| Schlagworte | brain • Containing • Deprivation • Psychopharmacology • Research • Syndrom • Syndromes |
| ISBN-10 | 0-387-28698-5 / 0387286985 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-387-28698-3 / 9780387286983 |
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