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The enchanted world of sleep / Peretz Lavie ; translated by Anthony Berris.

By: Material type: TextTextLanguage: English Original language: Hebrew Publication details: New Haven : Yale University Press, �1996.Description: 1 online resource (xii, 270 pages) : illustrationsContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 058535779X
  • 9780585357799
Uniform titles:
  • �Olamah ha-kasum shel ha-shenah. English
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Enchanted world of sleep.DDC classification:
  • 612.8/21 20
LOC classification:
  • QP425 .L3713 1996eb
NLM classification:
  • 1996 K-801
  • WL 108
Other classification:
  • 77.47
Online resources:
Contents:
Foreword / Michael Jouvet -- Introduction -- Sleep and death -- Brain waves -- Nathaniel Kleitman -- The rhythm of sleep -- The twenty-five hour day -- From sun clocks to biological clocks -- Dreams : creatures of the brain -- Alfred Maury and the dream of the guillotine -- Dreaming as a separate reality -- Do fish dream? -- The need for sleep -- The eccentricity of REM sleep -- Sleep centers -- Sleep medicine : the first steps -- Treating insomnia -- The physical and medical causes of insomnia -- Disorders in sleep timing -- Children who refuse to sleep -- Excessive sleepiness, or "In the arms of Morpheus" -- Narcolepsy : reversal of the natural order -- Epilogue -- References -- Index.
Summary: Why do we sleep? How much sleep do we really need? What causes sleep disorder-and what can be done about them? We have all puzzled over-or been plagued by-the mysteries of sleep. Now a leading researcher provides an engaging and informative introduction that answers many of our most baffling questions.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 247-262) and index.

Print version record.

Foreword / Michael Jouvet -- Introduction -- Sleep and death -- Brain waves -- Nathaniel Kleitman -- The rhythm of sleep -- The twenty-five hour day -- From sun clocks to biological clocks -- Dreams : creatures of the brain -- Alfred Maury and the dream of the guillotine -- Dreaming as a separate reality -- Do fish dream? -- The need for sleep -- The eccentricity of REM sleep -- Sleep centers -- Sleep medicine : the first steps -- Treating insomnia -- The physical and medical causes of insomnia -- Disorders in sleep timing -- Children who refuse to sleep -- Excessive sleepiness, or "In the arms of Morpheus" -- Narcolepsy : reversal of the natural order -- Epilogue -- References -- Index.

Why do we sleep? How much sleep do we really need? What causes sleep disorder-and what can be done about them? We have all puzzled over-or been plagued by-the mysteries of sleep. Now a leading researcher provides an engaging and informative introduction that answers many of our most baffling questions.

Translation of: �oOlamah ha-�kasum shel ha-shenah.

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