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Why We Sleep : (Record no. 6469)

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020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER
International Standard Book Number 9780141983769
020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER
International Standard Book Number 0141983760
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Transcribing agency DLC
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Classification number QP425.W44 2017
100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME
Personal name Walker, Matthew
245 ## - TITLE STATEMENT
Title Why We Sleep :
Remainder of title The New Science of Sleep and Dreams /
Statement of responsibility, etc Matthew Walker
260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT)
Place of publication, distribution, etc London, UK :
Name of publisher, distributor, etc Penguin,
Date of publication, distribution, etc c2018.
300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Extent viii, 360 pages ;
Dimensions 20 cm
505 ## - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE
Formatted contents note CONTENTS<br/>Part 1 This thing called sleep <br/>Chapter 1 To sleep --<br/>Chapter 2 Caffeine, jet lag, and melatonin: losing and gaining control of your sleep rhythm --<br/>Chapter 3 Defining and generating sleep: time dilation and what we learned from a baby in 1952 --<br/>Chapter 4 Ape beds, dinosaurs, and napping with half a brain: who sleeps, how do we sleep, and how much? --<br/>Chapter 5 Changes in sleep across the life span --<br/>Part 2. Why should you sleep? <br/>Chapter 6 Your mother and Shakespeare knew: the benefits of sleep for the brain --<br/>Chapter 7 Too extreme for the Guinness Book of World Records: sleep deprivation and the brain --<br/>Chapter 8 Cancer, heart attacks, and a shorter life: sleep deprivation and the body --<br/>Part 3. How and why we dream <br/>Chapter 9 Routinely psychotic: REM-sleep dreaming --<br/>Chapter 10 Dreaming as overnight therapy --<br/>Chapter 11 Dream creativity and dream control --<br/>Part 4. From sleeping pills to society transformed <br/>Chapter 12 Things that go bump in the night: sleep disorders and death caused by no sleep --<br/>Chapter 13 iPads, factory whistles, and nightcaps: what's stopping you from sleeping? --<br/>Chapter 14 Hurting and helping your sleep: pills vs. therapy --<br/>Chapter 15 Sleep and society: what medicine and education are doing wrong; what Google and NASA are doing right --<br/>Chapter 16 A new vision for sleep in the twenty-first century --<br/>Conclusion : To sleep or not to sleep --<br/>Appendix : Twelve tips for healthy sleep.
520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC.
Summary, etc <br/>"The first sleep book by a leading scientific expert--Professor Matthew Walker, Director of UC Berkeley's Sleep and Neuroimaging Lab--reveals his groundbreaking exploration of sleep, explaining how we can harness its transformative power to change our lives for the better. Sleep is one of the most important but least understood aspects of our life, wellness, and longevity. Until very recently, science had no answer to the question of why we sleep, or what good it served, or why we suffer such devastating health consequences when we don't sleep. Compared to the other basic drives in life--eating, drinking, and reproducing--the purpose of sleep remained elusive. An explosion of scientific discoveries in the last twenty years has shed new light on this fundamental aspect of our lives. Now, preeminent neuroscientist and sleep expert Matthew Walker gives us a new understanding of the vital importance of sleep and dreaming. Within the brain, sleep enriches our ability to learn, memorize, and make logical decisions. It recalibrates our emotions, restocks our immune system, fine-tunes our metabolism, and regulates our appetite. Dreaming mollifies painful memories and creates a virtual reality space in which the brain melds past and present knowledge to inspire creativity. Walker answers important questions about sleep: how do caffeine and alcohol affect sleep? What really happens during REM sleep? Why do our sleep patterns change across a lifetime? How do common sleep aids affect us and can they do long-term damage? Charting cutting-edge scientific breakthroughs, and synthesizing decades of research and clinical practice, Walker explains how we can harness sleep to improve learning, mood, and energy levels; regulate hormones; prevent cancer, Alzheimer's, and diabetes; slow the effects of aging; increase longevity; enhance the education and lifespan of our children, and boost the efficiency, success, and productivity of our businesses. Clear-eyed, fascinating, and accessible, Why We Sleep is a crucial and illuminating book"
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Topical term or geographic name as entry element Dreams.
650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name as entry element Sleep.
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Topical term or geographic name as entry element Sleep -- Physiological aspects.
650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name as entry element Sleep -- physiology.
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Topical term or geographic name as entry element Health and Wellbeing.
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