Overview
Updated throughout
Includes new area of genetics and sleep
Incorporates the latest nomenclature of the American Academy of Sleep Medicine
Covers hot topics of shift work, sleep and weight gain, affects of technology
Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
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Table of contents (13 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Sleep and Sleeping
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What Causes us to Sleep?
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Dreams and Dreaming
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Why We Sleep and Dream
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Problems with Sleeping and Dreaming
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Back Matter
Keywords
- Activation-Synthesis Theory for Dream Interpretation
- Body in sleep
- Brain in sleep
- Carl Jung
- Delaney Method
- Depression and Sleep
- Functions of NREMS
- Functions of sleep
- Insomnia
- Need to sleep
- Nightmares
- PTSD
- Psychoanalytic theories of dreams and dreaming
- REM cycle
- Senoi dream theory
- Sigmund Freud
- Sleep deprivation
- Sleep disorders
- Teen sleep
- Theories of dreaming
- Variations of sleep
- animal dreaming
- autonomic nervous system
- central nervous system
- chronic sleep restriction
- circadian effects
- circadian rhythms
- function of the brain
- good sleep
- polysomnography
- process of dreaming
- sensory stimuli
- sleep brainwave patterns
- sleep hygiene
About this book
An updated edition of Moorcroft’s 2003 volume, this new work reflects recent scientific advances in the area of sleep and disorders. As in the previous book, Understanding Sleep and Dreaming, this new edition serves as a compact overview for now sleep experts, covering 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. It also 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 private practices or researchers. It is an excellent text for courses on sleep at the undergraduate and graduate levels. The section on sleep labs will show how computers have replaced former models of data collection and storage; includes the new area of the genetics of sleep; add a new box on teen sleep; insert a new box on the emerging information about how technology use affects sleep; emphasize the controversy over rampart, wide-spread sleep deprivation; and include a new box covering the connection between sleep loss and weight gain. Additional inclusions might incorporate current “hot topics,” such as the effect of shift work on sleep, sleep problems in adolescents, and nightmare treatment for people suffering from PTSD.
Reviews
Praise for the First Edition:
"Although sleep has been the subject of serious study for several decades, there has not been available an integrated, introductory text for more than 10 years. Understanding Sleep and Dreaming fills this need with complete coverage of all aspects of sleep, dreaming, and sleep disorders, and is comprehensible as well as comprehensive. In accessible language, this text reviews the basic physiological mechanisms of sleep and the intertwined psychological ramifications. Most important, it is up to date, containing the latest information on the influence of orexin/hypocretin, nocturnal eating syndrome, the local cell theory of sleep, the effects of sleep deprivation, and the advantages of delaying school start times for teenagers. Distilling 25 years of combined clinical, research, and teaching experience, Dr. Moorcroft has created an excellent text for undergraduates, graduate students, and professionals, as well as for the general reader who wants a better understanding of the sleep process and its disorders."
Janet M. Dunn, MD, Rush University Medical Center
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Understanding Sleep and Dreaming
Authors: William H. Moorcroft
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-6467-9
Publisher: Springer New York, NY
eBook Packages: Behavioral Science, Behavioral Science and Psychology (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media New York 2013
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4614-6466-2Published: 26 March 2013
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4899-8824-9Published: 03 April 2015
eBook ISBN: 978-1-4614-6467-9Published: 25 March 2013
Edition Number: 2
Number of Pages: XIV, 369
Topics: Clinical Psychology, Health Psychology, Psychotherapy and Counseling