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Why We Sleep: Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams

By Matthew Walker PhD

Book information

Publisher
Scribner
Year
2017
ISBN
1501144316, 9781501144318
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
3 MB (3558466 bytes)
Pages
277\277
Topic
Biology
Time added
2019-04-22 05:13:42
sleep; sleep deprivation

Description

Cover......Page 2 Dedication......Page 7 Part 1: This Thing Called Sleep......Page 8 Chapter 1: To Sleep . . .......Page 10 Chapter 2: Caffeine, Jet Lag, and Melatonin: Losing and Gaining Control of Your Sleep Rhythm......Page 17 Chapter 3: Defining and Generating Sleep: Time Dilation and What We Learned from a Baby in 1952......Page 36 Chapter 4: Ape Beds, Dinosaurs, and Napping with Half a Brain: Who Sleeps, How Do We Sleep, and How Much?......Page 49 Chapter 5: Changes in Sleep Across the Life Span......Page 64 Part 2: Why Should You Sleep?......Page 81 Chapter 6: Your Mother and Shakespeare Knew: The Benefits of Sleep for the Brain......Page 83 Chapter 7: Too Extreme for the Guinness Book of World Records: Sleep Deprivation and the Brain......Page 101 Chapter 8: Cancer, Heart Attacks, and a Shorter Life: Sleep Deprivation and the Body......Page 122 Part 3: How and Why We Dream......Page 140 Chapter 9: Routinely Psychotic: REM-Sleep Dreaming......Page 142 Chapter 10: Dreaming as Overnight Therapy......Page 151 Chapter 11: Dream Creativity and Dream Control......Page 160 Part 4: From Sleeping Pills to Society Transformed......Page 172 Chapter 12: Things That Go Bump in the Night: Sleep Disorders and Death Caused by No Sleep......Page 174 Chapter 13: iPads, Factory Whistles, and Nightcaps: What’s Stopping You from Sleeping?......Page 193 Chapter 14: Hurting and Helping Your Sleep: Pills vs. Therapy......Page 205 Chapter 15: Sleep and Society: What Medicine and Education Are Doing Wrong; What Google and NASA Are Doing Right......Page 215 Chapter 16: A New Vision for Sleep in the Twenty-First Century......Page 234 Conclusion: To Sleep or Not to Sleep......Page 246 Acknowledgments......Page 247 About the Author......Page 248 Appendix: Twelve Tips for Healthy Sleep......Page 250 Illustration Permissions......Page 252 Index......Page 253 Copyright......Page 277

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