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(Producer) Shot in part on the road with the often sleep-deprived White House press corp, this program illuminates the integral role proper rest plays in our everyday-and "every night"--Lives. Experts discuss such topics as internal clocks, circadian rhythms, dreams, insomnia, and the effects of caffeine and sleeping pills. The program points out the alarming fact that in our 24-hour culture, where sleep has become the lowest priority, 62 percent...
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In this engrossing, expansive look at the facts and folklore of sleep, best-selling author Stanley Coren provides astounding new evidence that we are becoming an increasingly sleep-deprived society, and that this condition is seriously affecting our work, posing a danger to ourselves and others. He shows, for example, that the Exxon Valdez oil spill, the disaster involving the space shuttle Challenger, and the nuclear accidents at both Chernobyl and...
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The average adult spends more than 220,000 hours - or roughly 25 years - in bed sleeping. That's one-third of your life spent in slumber! But what exactly is sleep? Why do you spend so much of your time doing it? And what happens to your brain and body if you don't get a full night's rest? In what could be our most ambitious Brain Games experiment ever, we keep three volunteers awake for 36 hours in order to test the effects of sleep deprivation on...
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A good night's sleep is not just a luxury. How well a person sleeps can affect cognitive functioning, mental health, work performance, quality of life, and physiological and immune functions. This edited volume looks at recent developments in sleep research, provides an easy-to-understand review of the biological rhythms and stages of sleep, and outlines the different kinds of sleeping disorders. It gives practioners a set of methods for charting...
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This book presents an exploration of sleep, explaining how we can harness its transformative power to change our lives for the better. Sleep is one of the most important but least understood aspects of our life, wellness, and longevity. Until very recently, science had no answer to the question of why we sleep, or what good it served, or why we suffer such devastating health consequences when we don't sleep. Compared to the other basic drives in life...
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"Sleep Disorders: Diagnosis, Management and Treatment is aimed at clinicians and non-specialists, and covers the whole area of sleep, from the history of sleep medicine to sleep physiology, pathophysiology of sleep disorders, effective treatment and long-term management of the problem." "Peretz Lavie, Giora Pillar and Atul Malhotra have developed strategies for the management and aggressive treatment of sleep disorders which are now used worldwide...
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