The Secret World of Sleep
The Surprising Science of the Mind at Rest
(Sprache: Englisch)
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...
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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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A highly regarded neuroscientist explains the little known role of sleep in processing our waking life and making sense of difficult emotions and experiences. 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 Lewis explores the latest research into the 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 rolesthat 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.
Inhaltsverzeichnis zu „The Secret World of Sleep “
Chapter 1: Why Sleep?Chapter 2: How do we know sleep is important for the brain?Chapter 3: Building blocks of the brainChapter 4: How the brain controls sleepChapter 5: Mental spring cleaning while you sleepChapter 6: How and why memories are 'replayed' in sleepChapter 7: What is dreaming and what does it tell us memory?Chapter 8: Sleep, semantics, and the mindChapter 9: Emotional memories and sleepChapter 10: Does sleep disarm dangerous emotions?Chapter 11: Good sleepers and bad sleepersChapter 12: Getting the most out of your sleepChapter 13: Brief notes on how to get the sleep you need
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Penelope A. Lewis
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Penelope A. Lewis
- 2013, 208 Seiten, Maße: 14,9 x 21,5 cm, Gebunden, Englisch
- Verlag: Macmillan Education
- ISBN-10: 0230107591
- ISBN-13: 9780230107595
- Erscheinungsdatum: 27.08.2013
Sprache:
Englisch
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'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
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