Sleep
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Sleep
(Scientific American Library paperback)
Scientific American Library, a division of HPHLP, c19954
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Bibliography: p. [205]-206
Includes index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
It is estimated that individuals spend up to one-third of their lives asleep. Sleep is a time of continual, spontaneous brain activity largely independent of external stimuli. This study reports on individual sleep patterns, dreaming and disorders like insomnia.
Table of Contents
- Sleep and the brain
- the rhythms of sleep
- sleep and evolution
- the development of sleep
- behaviour in sleep
- the neurology of sleep
- dreaming
- disordered sleep
- the functions of sleep.
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