Sleep

Author(s)

• Hobson, J. Allan

Bibliographic Information

Sleep

J. Allan Hobson

（Scientific American Library paperback）

Scientific American Library, a division of HPHLP, c19954

• : pbk

Note

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.

by "Nielsen BookData"

Details

• NCID: BD01588300
• ISBN:
  • 0716760142
• LCCN: 88037027
• Country Code: us
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: New York
• Pages/Volumes: xiv, 213 p.
• Size: 24 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : QP425
  • DC19 : 612/.821
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Sleep
• Parent Bibliography ID:
  • BA30816917