Patrick Mcnamara

The Neuroscience of Sleep and Dreams

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

"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. Unlike other introductory texts, it emphasizes the social nature of sleep and dreams, and links the latest science to established evolutionary theory"--

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 268
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. März 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 545g
• ISBN-13: 9781009208888
• ISBN-10: 1009208888
• Artikelnr.: 66996475

Autorenporträt

Patrick McNamara is Associate Professor of Neurology at Boston University and Professor of Psychology at National University, USA. His research into sleep and dreams is ground-breaking and is recognized as such. He has published numerous papers on sleep and dreams, and authored or edited several volumes on the science of sleep and dreams. He won a VA Merit Review Award and two NIH research grant awards for his work.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
1. What is sleep?
Part I. Sleep: 2. From biological rhythms to the sleep cycle
3. Expression of sleep across the human lifespan
4. Characteristics of REM and NREM sleep
5. Sleep disorders
6. Theories of REM and NREM sleep
Part II. Dreams: 7. Introduction: What are dreams?
8. Dreams across the human lifespan
9. Characteristics of REM and NREM dreams
10. Dream varieties
11. Theories of dreaming.