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"The period of the last three decades has been one in which there have been outstanding advances in both knowledge and theory about the changes in brain function forming the physiological basis of sleep. These advances have largely been made through the development of electrophysiological techniques and have attracted widespread interest. It is possible that these rapid advances have tended to distract attention from other, age-old problems posed by sleep, some of which we shall re-consider in this book, and about which our understanding has also become a little clearer."
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This book examines a variety of aspects of sleep, including its physiology, pathology, hygiene, and psychology. The author also looks at the differences between the waking and sleeping states, the general phenomena of sleep, reflex movements, the brain during sleep, talking in sleep, attention during sleep, theories of sleep, the fear of darkness, the influence of light, dreams, and other topics relevant to sleep.
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Outside back cover : "Sleep, along with the sleep-related behaviors that impact sleep quality, have emerged as significant determinants of health and well-being across populations. An emerging body of research has confirmed that sleep is strongly socially patterned, following trends along lines of socioeconomic status, race, immigration status, age, work, and geography. The Social Epidemiology of Sleep serves as both an introduction to sleep epidemiology and a synthesis of the most important and exciting research to date, including : · An introduction to sleep epidemiology, including methods of assessment and their validity, the descriptive epidemiology of sleep patterns and disorders, associations with health, and basic biology. · What we know about the variation of sleep patterns and disorders across populations, including consideration of sleep across the lifespan and within special populations. · Major social determinants of sleep (including socioeconomic status, immigration status, neighborhood contexts, and others) based on the accumulated research With editors from both population science and medicine, combined with contributions from psychology, sociology, demography, geography, social epidemiology, and medicine, this text codifies a new field at the intersection of how we sleep and the social and behavioral factors that influence it."
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