The Enchanted World of Sleep

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Yale University Press, 1 янв. 1998 г.

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Sleep and Death
1
Brain Waves
8
Nathaniel Kleitman
18
The Rhythm of Sleep
26
The Twentyfive Hour Day
35
From Sun Clocks to Biological Clocks
54
Dreams Creatures of the Brain
65
Alfred Maury and the Dream of the Guillotine
76
Sleep Centers
151
Sleep Medicine The First Steps
161
Treating Insomnia
174
The Physical and Medical Causes of Insomnia
184
Disorders in Sleep Timing
189
Children Who Refuse to Sleep
205
Excessive Sleepiness or In the Arms of Morpheus
216
Narcolepsy Reversal of the Natural Order
234

Dreaming as a Separate Reality
89
Do Fish Dream?
98
The Need for Sleep
111
The Eccentricity of REM Sleep
129
Epilogue
243
References
247
Index
263
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Peretz Lavie is dean of the Faculty of Medicine, head of the Sleep Laboratory, and Andrea Ballard Professor of Biological Psychiatry at the Technion—Israel Institute of Technology in Haifa. A pioneer of modern sleep research, his studies have been covered extensively by newspapers, television, and radio, and he has been invited to consult on sleep research and sleep medicine throughout the world.

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