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Author Horne, James (James A.)

Title Sleepfaring : a journey through the science of sleep / Jim Horne
Published Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2006

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Description 272 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Contents 1: Petunias, one-eyed ducks and roly-poly mice -- 2: By the brain, for the brain -- 3: The substance of sleep -- 4: Then -- 5: Odd behaviour -- 6: Skin and bone -- 7: Sleepiness -- 8: Higher matters -- 9: Crashing out -- 10: Time of life -- 11: Time travellers -- 12: Good night -- 13: Brain waves -- 14: REM sleep -- 15: Or REM wakefulness? -- 16: Cinema of the mind -- 17: The long, the short and the less -- 18: Are we chronically sleep deprived? -- 19: Things that go bump in the night -- 20: 'A fuffled mind makes a restless pilow' -- 21: Snoring, gasping and jumping -- 22: Children -- 23: I sleep, therefore I am
Summary Jim Horne's lively itinerary makes accessible the latest research into brain physiology, psychology and the medical and social factors of sleep
Notes Formerly CIP. Uk
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Subject Sleep -- Physiological aspects.
Sleep -- Psychological aspects.
Sleep.
Sleep.
Sleep.
LC no. 2006297013
ISBN 0192807315 (cased)
9780192807311 (cased)