Understanding Sleep and Dreaming (2nd Ed., 2nd ed. 2013)
Auteur : Moorcroft William H.
An updated edition of Moorcroft?s 2003 volume, this new work reflects recent scientific advances in the area of sleep and disorders. As in the previous book, Understanding Sleep and Dreaming, this new edition serves as a compact overview for now sleep experts, covering 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. It also 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 private practices or researchers. It is an excellent text for courses on sleep at the undergraduate and graduate levels. The section on sleep labs will show how computers have replaced former models of data collection and storage; includes the new area of the genetics of sleep; add a new box on teen sleep; insert a new box on the emerging information about how technology use affects sleep; emphasize the controversy over rampart, wide-spread sleep deprivation; and include a new box covering the connection between sleep loss and weight gain. Additional inclusions might incorporate current ?hot topics,? such as the effect of shift work on sleep, sleep problems in adolescents, and nightmare treatment for people suffering from PTSD.
Part I: Sleep and Dreaming.- Part II: What Causes us to Sleep?.- Part III: Dreams and Dreaming.- Part IV: Why We Sleep and Dream?.- Part V: Problems with Sleeping and Dreaming.
Updated throughout
Includes new area of genetics and sleep
Incorporates the latest nomenclature of the American Academy of Sleep Medicine
Covers hot topics of shift work, sleep and weight gain, affects of technology
Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Date de parution : 04-2015
Ouvrage de 369 p.
15.5x23.5 cm
Date de parution : 03-2013
Ouvrage de 369 p.
15.5x23.5 cm
Thèmes d’Understanding Sleep and Dreaming :
Mots-clés :
Activation-Synthesis Theory for Dream Interpretation; Body in sleep; Brain in sleep; Carl Jung; Delaney Method; Depression and Sleep; Functions of NREMS; Functions of sleep; Insomnia; Need to sleep; Nightmares; PTSD; Psychoanalytic theories of dreams and dreaming; REM cycle; Senoi dream theory; Sigmund Freud; Sleep deprivation; Sleep disorders; Teen sleep; Theories of dreaming; Variations of sleep; animal dreaming; autonomic nervous system; central nervous system; chronic sleep restriction; circadian effects; circadian rhythms; function of the brain; good sleep; polysomnography; process of dreaming; sensory stimuli; sleep brainwave patterns; sleep hygiene