The neuroscience of sleep and dreams:

The Neuroscience of Sleep and Dreams provides comprehensive coverage of the basic neuroscience of both sleep and dreams for upper-level undergraduate and graduate students. It details new scientific discoveries, places those discoveries within evolutionary context, and links established findings wit...

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Main Author: McNamara, Patrick 1956-
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, United Kingdom New York, NY, USA Cambridge University Press 2023
Edition:Second edition.
Series:Cambridge fundamentals of neuroscience in psychology
Links:https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009208840
Summary:The Neuroscience of Sleep and Dreams provides comprehensive coverage of the basic neuroscience of both sleep and dreams for upper-level undergraduate and graduate students. It details new scientific discoveries, places those discoveries within evolutionary context, and links established findings with implications for sleep medicine. This second edition focuses on recent developments in the social nature of sleep and dreams. Coverage includes the neuroscience of all stages of sleep; the lifespan development of these sleep stages; the role of non-REM and REM sleep in health and mental health; comparative sleep; biological rhythms; sleep disorders; sleep memory; dream content; dream phenomenology, and dream functions. Students, scientists, and interested non-specialists will find this book accessible and informative.
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (xvii, 248 Seiten)
ISBN:9781009208840