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Why we sleep unlocking the power of sleep and dreams
"The first sleep book by a leading scientific expert--Professor Matthew Walker, Director of UC Berkeley's Sleep and Neuroimaging Lab--reveals his groundbreaking exploration of sleep, explaining how we can harness its transformative power to change our lives for the better. Sleep is one of...
| Main Author: | Walker, Matthew P. (Author) |
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| Format: | Books Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Scribner, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, Inc.,
2017.
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| Edition: | First Scribner hardcover edition. |
| Subjects: |
Table of Contents:
- 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?
- 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
- Appendix: Twelve tips for healthy sleep.