Matthew Walker

Gebundenes Buch

Why We Sleep

Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams

Beschreibung

Offers a look at sleep and dreaming that incorporates the important discoveries of the last two decades regarding their purpose, addressing their importance in such functions as learning, logical thinking, emotional regulation, and metabolism.

Autor

Matthew Walker is a professor of neuroscience and psychology at UC Berkeley, the Director of its Sleep and Neuroimaging Lab, and a former professor of psychiatry at Harvard University. He has published over 100 scientific studies and has appeared on 60 Minutes, Nova, BBC News, and NPR’s Science Friday. Why We Sleep is his first book.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Scribner
• Seitenzahl: 368
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. Oktober 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 156mm x 32mm
• Gewicht: 532g
• ISBN-13: 9781501144318
• ISBN-10: 1501144316
• Artikelnr.: 47823320

Rezensionen

A neuroscientist shows how a good night's shut-eye can make us cleverer, more attractive, slimmer, happier, healthier and ward off cancer . . . it's probably a little too soon to tell you that it saved my life, but it's been an eye-opener Mark O'Connell Guardian