主编推荐语
本书讲述了睡眠的生物学和心理学，提供了对睡眠的基本理解以及如何衡量睡眠，着眼于人类一生的睡眠以及主要睡眠障碍的原因和后果。
内容简介
Why do we need sleep? How much sleep is enough? What is sleep? What happens when we don't get enough? We spend about a third of our lives asleep - it plays a crucial role in our health and wellbeing. References to sleep abound in literature and art, and sleep has been recognized as fundamental to the human condition for thousands of years. Over the past century, our knowledge of how sleep occurs, what it does, and what happens to our health if we do not have enough has developed hugely. The impact of poor sleep on our quality of life is also gaining recognition and the prevalence of sleep disorders in the population appears to be increasing as we live ever stressful lives.
目录
- COPYRIGHT
- Acknowledgements
- List of illustrations
- Chapter 1 Sleep through the ages
- Chapter 2 Sleep Generation And Regulation – a Framework
- The electroencephalogram (EEG)
- Dreaming
- The two-process model of sleep–wake regulation
- The worst of both worlds – awake for a long time at the wrong time
- Sleep inertia – the problem of getting going in the morning
- Why you can feel sleepy after lunch but not sleepy before you go to bed
- Are you a lark or an owl? Morning types and evening types
- Light, circadian rhythms, melatonin, sleep, and arousal
- Light and sleep
- Rhythm and blues
- The 'Dracula' hormone – melatonin and sleep
- What happens without any sleep?
- Not getting enough sleep?
- Chapter 3 The sleeping brain
- The suprachiasmatic nuclei (SCN) and the molecular clock
- The homeostatic drivers
- Brain regions and the neurotransmitters of sleep and wakefulness
- The neurotransmitters of wakefulness
- The generation of NREM and REM sleep
- The NREM-REM flip-flop
- Multiple sleep genes and multiple patterns of sleep-wake
- Chapter 4 The reasons for sleep
- Do all animals sleep?
- Mammals
- Birds
- Reptiles and amphibians
- Fish
- Invertebrates
- Variation in sleep duration across the mammals
- Why do animals sleep?
- Cellular restoration–sleep is a process that allows the repair of key cellular components
- Energy conservation–sleep has evolved to reduce energy demands
- Brain efficiency–sleep has evolved for the consolidation of learning and memory
- Sleep versus the rest-activity pattern?
- Chapter 5 The seven ages of sleep
- Sleep during pregnancy
- Neonatal sleep
- Sleep in children
- Sleep in adolescence and young adulthood
- Middle age and menopause
- Sleep in the elderly
- Dementia
- Chapter 6 When sleep suffers
- Insomnia
- Sleep-related breathing disorders
- Hypersomnia of central origin
- Circadian rhythm sleep disorders
- Parasomnias
- Sleep-related movement disorders
- Chapter 7 Sleep and health
- Sleep and safety
- Sleep and heart disease
- Sleep and metabolism
- Sleep and immune function
- Sleep and cancer
- Sleep, mental health, and neurodegenerative disease
- Chapter 8 Sleep and society
- Sleep and driving
- Sleep and caffeine
- Sleep and school
- Sleep and work
- Sleep and society
- Chapter 9 The 24-hour society
- Why is shift-work a problem?
- Is jetlag real?
- Managing shift-work and jetlag
- What does shift-work do to health?
- Shift-work, jetlag, and cancer
- The continuum of sleep and circadian disruption
- Further reading
- Chapter 1: Sleep through the ages
- Chapter 2: Sleep generation and regulation – a framework
- Chapter 3: The sleeping brain
- Chapter 4: The reasons for sleep
- Chapter 5: The seven ages of sleep
- Chapter 6: When sleep suffers
- Chapter 7: Sleep and health
- Chapter 8: Sleep and society
- Chapter 9: The 24-hour society
- Websites
- Index
- Memory
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