The Enchanted World of Sleep - Hardcover

Lavie, Prof. Peretz

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0300066023 ISBN 13: 9780300066029

Publisher: Yale University Press, 1996

Synopsis

An overview of the nature of sleep discusses the field of sleep research, sleep disorders and their treatments, and the sleep patterns of children and the elderly

About this title

Review:

Most of us take sleep for granted, except of course on those long nights when it refuses to come. But for Peretz Lavie, head of the Sleep Laboratory at the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology in Haifa, sleep is every bit as important as wakefulness. Amidst the anecdotes, stories and literature can be found revealing sleep research such as the study of a group of students in Israel during the Gulf War, who, five weeks into the conflict, reported that half their dreams dealt with the war and that the most common recurring image was the gas mask.

About the Author:

Michel Jouvet, a pioneer in sleep research, is Emeritus Professor of Experimental Medicine at the University of Lyon, France. He is a member of the French Academy of Sciences and holds the Gold Medal of the CNRS (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique). He is the author of "The Paradox of Sleep: The Story of Dreaming" (MIT Press).

About this edition

• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Publication date: 1996
• ISBN 10: 0300066023
• ISBN 13: 9780300066029
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 284