Understanding Sleep and Dreaming

William H. Moorcroft (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

340 Seiten

2005 | 2003 ed.
Springer-Verlag New York Inc.
978-0-387-24965-0 (ISBN)

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Designed primarily as a text this volume is an up-to-date and integrated overview of physiological sleep mechanisms, brain function, psychological ramifications of sleep, dimensions of dreaming, and clinical disorders associated with sleep. It is accessibly written with specially boxed material that enhances the text. Authored by a researcher/clinician/professor with more than 25 years of experience in sleep studies, Understanding Sleep and Dreaming provides a solid basis for those who are not expert in this area. It offers a good foundation for those who will continue sleep studies, while at the same time offering enough information for those who will apply this knowledge in other ways such as clinicians in their individual practices or researchers for whom sleep may be part of a specific study. It is an excellent text for courses on sleep at the undergraduate and graduate levels.

Prologue A Visit to a Sleep and Dreams Lab.- Prologue A Visit to a Sleep and Dreams Lab.- Sleep and Sleeping.- What is Sleep and How is it Scientifically Measured?.- The Need to Sleep.- Normal Variations of Sleep.- What Causes us to Sleep?.- The Brain in Sleep.- The Body during Sleep.- Dreams and Dreaming.- Dreams.- Dreaming.- Theories of Dreams and Dreaming.- Problems with Sleeping and Dreaming.- Some Difficulties That People May Have with Sleep.- Disorders of Sleep, Part I.- Disorders of Sleep, Part II.- Why We Sleep and Dream.- Functions of Sleep and NREMS.- Functions of REMS and Dreaming.

Mitarbeit	Assistent: P. Belcher
Zusatzinfo	XVI, 340 p.
Verlagsort	New York, NY
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Biopsychologie / Neurowissenschaften
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Klinische Psychologie
	Medizin / Pharmazie ► Medizinische Fachgebiete ► Psychiatrie / Psychotherapie
	Medizin / Pharmazie ► Studium
ISBN-10	0-387-24965-6 / 0387249656
ISBN-13	978-0-387-24965-0 / 9780387249650
Zustand	Neuware