The nocturnal brain nightmares, neuroscience, and the secret world of sleep

"For Dr. Guy Leschziner's patients, there is no rest for the weary--either in mind or in body. Insomnia, narcolepsy, night terrors, apnea, and sleepwalking are just a sampling of conditions afflicting sufferers who cannot sleep--and their experiences in trying are the stuff of nightmares. Demoniac h...

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Main Author: Leschziner, Guy (Author)
Format: Books Print Book
Language:English
Published: New York : St. Martin's Press, an imprint of St. Martin's Publishing Group, 2019.
Edition:First U.S. edition.
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505 0 |a Greenwich Mean Time -- In the still of the night -- Disney was right -- Rumblings -- The sleep-talking bus driver -- Weak with laughter -- Buzzing bees -- Seized by the throat -- Floating eyeballs -- Jekyll and Hyde -- The waking effects of coffee -- A peculiar fairy tale -- Inception -- Losing sleep -- Epilogue: Some general thoughts on sleep. 
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