The Neuroscience of Sleep and Dreams

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Beschreibung

The Neuroscience of Sleep and Dreams provides comprehensive coverage of the basic neuroscience of both sleep and dreams for upper-level undergraduate and graduate students. It details new scientific discoveries, places those discoveries within evolutionary context, and links established findings with implications for sleep medicine. This second edition focuses on recent developments in the social nature of sleep and dreams. Coverage includes the neuroscience of all stages of sleep; the lifespan development of these sleep stages; the role of non-REM and REM sleep in health and mental health; comparative sleep; biological rhythms; sleep disorders; sleep memory; dream content; dream phenomenology, and dream functions. Students, scientists, and interested non-specialists will find this book accessible and informative.

Über den Autor

Patrick McNamara is Associate Professor of Neurology at Boston University and Professor of Psychology at National University, USA. His research into sleep and dreams is ground-breaking and is recognized as such. He has published numerous papers on sleep and dreams, and authored or edited several volumes on the science of sleep and dreams. He won a VA Merit Review Award and two NIH research grant awards for his work.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction; 1. What is sleep?; Part I. Sleep: 2. From biological rhythms to the sleep cycle; 3. Expression of sleep across the human lifespan; 4. Characteristics of REM and NREM sleep; 5. Sleep disorders; 6. Theories of REM and NREM sleep; Part II. Dreams: 7. Introduction: What are dreams?; 8. Dreams across the human lifespan; 9. Characteristics of REM and NREM dreams; 10. Dream varieties; 11. Theories of dreaming.

Erscheinungsjahr:	2023
Fachbereich:	Allgemeines
Genre:	Importe , Psychologie
Rubrik:	Geisteswissenschaften
Thema:	Lexika
Medium:	Taschenbuch
Inhalt:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
ISBN-13:	9781009208895
ISBN-10:	1009208896
Sprache:	Englisch
Einband:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor:	Mcnamara, Patrick
Hersteller:	Cambridge University Press
Verantwortliche Person für die EU:	Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße:	229 x 152 x 15 mm
Von/Mit:	Patrick Mcnamara
Erscheinungsdatum:	30.03.2023
Gewicht:	0,393 kg