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Product details:
- Publisher Palgrave Macmillan
- Date of Publication 24 December 2013
- ISBN 9780230107595
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages208 pages
- Size 217x146x21 mm
- Weight 298 g
- Language English
- Illustrations Includes 15 b/w illustrations 0
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Short description:
In The Secret World of Sleep, neuroscientist Penny Lewis explores the latest research into the nighttime brain to understand the real benefits of sleep. While our body rests, the brain practices tasks it learned during the day. By understanding the roles that the nocturnal brain plays in our waking life, we can boost creativity and become smarter.
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In recent years neuroscientists have uncovered the countless ways our brain trips us up in day-to-day life, from its propensity toward irrational thought to how our intuitions deceive us. The latest research on sleep, however, points in the opposite direction. Where old wives tales have long advised to "sleep on a problem," today scientists are discovering the truth behind these folk sayings,and how the busy brain radically improves our minds through sleep and dreams. In The Secret World of Sleep, neuroscientist Penny Lewisexplores the latest research intothe nighttime brain to understand the real benefits of sleep. She shows how, while our body rests, the brain practices tasks it learned during the day, replays traumatic events to mollify them, and forges connections between distant concepts. By understanding the roles that the nocturnal brain plays in our waking life, we can improve the relationship between the two, and even boost creativity and become smarter. This is a fascinating exploration of one of the most surprising corners of neuroscience that shows how science may be able to harness the power of sleep to improve learning, health, and more.
'There is much to fascinate in this nippy primer on the biology and behaviour associated with snoozing…from the latest on narcolepsy to the sleep-inhibiting qualities of smoked meat, this is wide-awake science' - Nature
Table of Contents:
Chapter 1: Why Sleep?
Chapter 2: How do we know sleep is important for the brain?
Chapter 3: Building blocks of the brain
Chapter 4: How the brain controls sleep
Chapter 5: Mental spring cleaning while you sleep
Chapter 6: How and why memories are 'replayed' in sleep
Chapter 7: What is dreaming and what does it tell us memory?
Chapter 8: Sleep, semantics, and the mind
Chapter 9: Emotional memories and sleep
Chapter 10: Does sleep disarm dangerous emotions?
Chapter 11: Good sleepers and bad sleepers
Chapter 12: Getting the most out of your sleep
Chapter 13: Brief notes on how to get the sleep you need
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