| Description |
1 online resource (xvi, 339 pages) : illustrations |
| Contents |
Prologue : a visit to a sleep and dreams lab -- pt. I. Sleep and sleeping -- 1. What is sleep and how is it scientifically measured? -- 2. The need to sleep -- 3. Normal variations of sleep -- pt. II. What causes us to sleep? -- 4. The brain in sleep -- 5. The body during sleep -- pt. III. Dreams and dreaming -- 6. Dreams -- 7. Dreaming -- 8. Theories of dreams and dreaming -- pt. IV. Problems with sleeping and dreaming -- 9. Some difficulties that people may have with sleep -- 10. Disorder of sleep, part I -- 11. Disorders of sleep, part II -- pt. V. Why we sleep and dream -- 12. Functions of sleep and NREMS -- 13. Functions of REMS and dreaming -- Epilogue |
| Summary |
Provides an overview of physiological sleep mechanisms, brain function, psychological ramifications of sleep, dimensions of dreaming, and clinical disorders associated with sleep. This work is a useful text for courses on sleep at the undergraduate and graduate levels |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
| In |
Springer e-books |
| Subject |
Sleep -- Physiological aspects.
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Sleep disorders.
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Dreams.
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Sleep -- physiology.
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Dreams.
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Sleep Wake Disorders -- physiopathology.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Belcher, Paula.
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| ISBN |
0306479494 (electronic bk.) |
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661061914X |
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9780306479496 (electronic bk.) |
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9786610619146 |
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(Paper) |
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