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Sleep: A Very Short Introduction
Steven W. Lockley and Russell G. Foster
168 pages
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15 black and white illustrations
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174x111mm
978-0-19-958785-8
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Paperback
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22 March 2012
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- Answers all of the pertinent questions - what is sleep? why do we need sleep? how much sleep is enough? what happens when we don't get enough sleep?
- Explores sleep changes in relation to pregnancy, newborns, children, adolescents, middle age and menopause, old age, and dementia
- Considers the impact of out modern 24/7 society on our sleep and its patterns
- Looks at some of the major sleep disorders
Why do we need sleep? How much sleep is enough? What is sleep? What happens when we don't get enough?
We spend about a third of our lives asleep - it plays a crucial role in our health and wellbeing. References to sleep abound in literature and art, and sleep has been recognized as fundamental to the human condition for thousands of years. Over the past century, our knowledge of how sleep occurs, what it does, and what happens to our health if we do not have enough has developed hugely. The impact of poor sleep on our quality of life is also gaining recognition and the prevalence of sleep disorders in the population appears to be increasing as we live
ever stressful lives.
This Very Short Introduction addresses the biological and psychological aspects of sleep, providing a basic understanding of what sleep is and how it is measured, looking at sleep through the human lifespan and the causes and consequences of major sleep disorders. Russell G. Foster and Steven W. Lockley go on to consider the impact of modern society, examining the relationship between sleep and work hours, and the impact of our 24/7 society.Readership: General readers interested in sleep, students in many disciplines including psychology, neuroscience, neurology, and sociology of sleep.
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Steven W. Lockley, Neuroscientist, Brigham and Women's Hospital: Associate Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School, Boston, USA, and Russell G. Foster, Chair Nuffield Laboratory of Ophthalmology, Professor of Circadian Neuroscience, Senior Kurti Fellow Brasenose College, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
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1: The history of sleep
2: The generation and regeneration of sleep
3: The sleeping brain
4: The reasons for sleep
5: The seven ages of sleep
6: When sleep suffers
7: Sleep and health
8: Society and sleep
9: The 24/7 society
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