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Comprehensive but concise introduction to sleep both in its normal and disordered aspects
Provides an excellent overview that does not oversimplify but is completely accessible and can serve as a basic text for those who do not have much prior knowledge of this area
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Table of contents (14 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Prologue A Visit to a Sleep and Dreams Lab
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Sleep and Sleeping
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What Causes us to Sleep?
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Front Matter
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Dreams and Dreaming
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Front Matter
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Problems with Sleeping and Dreaming
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Why We Sleep and Dream
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About this book
Designed primarily as a text this volume is an up-to-date and integrated overview of physiological sleep mechanisms, brain function, psychological ramifications of sleep, dimensions of dreaming, and clinical disorders associated with sleep. It is accessibly written with specially boxed material that enhances the text. Authored by a researcher/clinician/professor with more than 25 years of experience in sleep studies, Understanding Sleep and Dreaming provides a solid basis for those who are not expert in this area. It offers a good foundation for those who will continue sleep studies, while at the same time offering enough information for those who will apply this knowledge in other ways such as clinicians in their individual practices or researchers for whom sleep may be part of a specific study. It is an excellent text for courses on sleep at the undergraduate and graduate levels.
Authors and Affiliations
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Luther College of Sleep and Dreaming Laboratory and Psychology Department, Decorah
William H. Moorcroft
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Colorado State University, Fort Collins
William H. Moorcroft
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Understanding Sleep and Dreaming
Authors: William H. Moorcroft
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/0-387-28698-5
Publisher: Springer New York, NY
eBook Packages: Behavioral Science, Behavioral Science and Psychology (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag US 2005
Softcover ISBN: 978-0-387-24965-0Published: 15 July 2005
eBook ISBN: 978-0-387-28698-3Published: 04 September 2006
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVI, 340
Topics: Clinical Psychology, Health Psychology, Psychopharmacology, Psychotherapy and Counseling