Dement's Sleep and Dreams - Softcover

Dement M.D., William C.; Pelayo M.D., Rafael

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1502885883 ISBN 13: 9781502885883

Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2014

Synopsis

Current research on how sleep affects our daily lives -- both physical and mental functions of our well being. Focuses on the physiology of non-REM and REM sleep, dreams and dreaming, as well as the pathophysiology of highly prevalent sleep disorders. The content also includes lucid dreaming, sleep need, sleep debt, daytime alertness, and performance; biological clock and circadian rhythms; sleep disorders, insomnia, narcolepsy, sleep apnea, sleepwalking, jet lag, sleeping pills, sleep and mental illness, sleep and memory, and the impact of sleep deprivation and sleep disorders on academic and social life.

About this title

About the Author:

Rafael Pelayo, MD is a sleep medicine speacialist and a professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Science William Dement, MD PhD is the founder of the field of sleep medicine

About this edition

• Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Publication date: 2014
• ISBN 10: 1502885883
• ISBN 13: 9781502885883
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 598