Sleep

Author(s)

• Hobson, J. Allan

Bibliographic Information

Sleep

J. Allan Hobson

（Scientific American library, ; no. 27）

Scientific American Library : Distributed by W.H. Freeman, c1989

• : pbk

Note

Bibliography: p. [205]-206

Includes index

Description and Table of Contents

Volume

ISBN 9780716750505

Description

Explains what is known about the function of sleep in people and animals, discusses sleeping rhythms, and looks at the nature of dreams.

Volume

: pbk ISBN 9780716760146

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.

by "Nielsen BookData"

Details

• NCID: BA2142355X
• ISBN:
  • 0716750503
  • 0716760142
• LCCN: 88037027
• Country Code: us
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: New York
• Pages/Volumes: xiii, 213 p.
• Size: 24 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : QP425
  • DC19 : 612/.821
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Sleep
• Parent Bibliography ID:
  • BA00143577