Why do we sleep? How much sleep do we really need? What causes sleep apnea, nacrolepsy and insomnia - and what can be done about these sleep disorders? Why do older people have more trouble sleeping than young people? This work provides an introduction to the subject of sleep that answers many of our questions. Peretz Lavie surveys the entire ...
This work takes the reader on a scientific and sociological tour of the history of sleep and dream research, concluding with the author's own ideas on the function of dreaming. Michel Jouvet tells the story of a handful of neurobiologists, including himself, who pioneered sleep and dream research in the 1950s. He describes the technical and ...
This enlightening, entertaining, and intriguing novel begins as a story within a story - or a story within a trunk. A Frenchman - our narrator, presumably the author Michel Jouvet, or a literary version of himself - buys an antique chest with brass fittings, labeled with the initials HLS and a partially worn away date, "178." Happy to have such a ...
Michel Jouvet examina la fisiologa del sueo y de los sueos para llegar a la descripcin de los tres estados del cerebro: la vigilia, el sueo y el sueo paradjico, confrontando la explicacin freudiana de los sueos con las actuales teoras neurobiolgicas. Por sus distintos enfoques, esta obra est dirigida a los especialistas del tema y a los ...
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