Understanding sleep and dreaming
- نوع فایل : کتاب
- زبان : انگلیسی
- مؤلف : William H Moorcroft; Paula Belcher
- ناشر : New York : Springer
- چاپ و سال / کشور: 2005
- شابک / ISBN : 9780387286983
Description
Prologue : a visit to a sleep and dreams lab -- pt. I. Sleep and sleeping -- 1. What is sleep and how is it scientifically measured? -- 2. The need to sleep -- 3. Normal variations of sleep -- pt. II. What causes us to sleep? -- 4. The brain in sleep -- 5. The body during sleep -- pt. III. Dreams and dreaming -- 6. Dreams -- 7. Dreaming -- 8. Theories of dreams and dreaming -- pt. IV. Problems with sleeping and dreaming -- 9. Some difficulties that people may have with sleep -- 10. Disorder of sleep, part I -- 11. Disorders of sleep, part II -- pt. V. Why we sleep and dream -- 12. Functions of sleep and NREMS -- 13. Functions of REMS and dreaming -- Epilogue.
Provides an overview of physiological sleep mechanisms, brain function, psychological ramifications of sleep, dimensions of dreaming, and clinical disorders associated with sleep. This work is a useful text for courses on sleep at the undergraduate and graduate levels.
