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Why we sleep : unlocking the power of sleep and dreams /

Title:
Why we sleep : unlocking the power of sleep and dreams /
Author:
Walker, Matthew P., author.
Format:
Book
Institution:
Lesley Sherrill, MassArt
Contents:
Part 1. This thing called sleep. To sleep ... -- Caffeine, jet lag, and melatonin : losing and gaining control of your sleep rhythm -- Defining and generating sleep : time dilation and what we learned from a baby in 1952 -- Ape beds, dinosaurs, and napping with half a brain : who sleeps, how do we sleep, and how much? -- Changes in sleep across the life span -- Part 2. Why should you sleep? Your mother and Shakespeare knew : the benefits of sleep for the brain -- Too extreme for the Guinness Book of World Records : sleep deprivation and the brain -- Cancer, heart attacks, and a shorter life : sleep deprivation and the body -- Part 3. How and why we dream. Routinely psychotic : REM-sleep dreaming -- Dreaming as overnight therapy -- Dream creativity and dream control -- Part 4. From sleeping pills to society transformed. Things that go bump in the night : sleep disorders and death caused by no sleep -- iPads, factory whistles, and nightcaps : what's stopping you from sleeping? -- Hurting and helping your sleep : pills vs. therapy -- Sleep and society : what medicine and education are doing wrong; what Google and NASA are doing right -- A new vision for sleep in the twenty-first century -- Conclusion : to sleep or not to sleep -- Appendix : twelve tips for healthy sleep.
Online access:
No online access
Library holdings:
Lesley/EDS-Sherrill Library Main Stacks
QP425 .W44 2017 – Available
MassArt Main
QP425 .W44 2017 – Available