Nodding Off: The Science of Sleep from Cradle to Grave 9781472946157, 1472946154

Table of contents :
Cover
Half-Title
Series
Dedication
Title
Contents
Note from the Author
Prologue
Chapter 1: Sleep 101
What is sleep?
Captain Obvious and the Clock
Sleep: it's all just a stage
Sleepy brain
Why sleep?
Theories of sleep
Sleep: what's it all about?
What's in a dream?
Chapter 2: Sleeping Like a Baby: Sleep in the First Years of Life
Why keep waking?
Problems in the past?
Genetic and environmental differences
Which genes? Which environment?
Nature AND nurture
When is there really a problem?
Sleep safe
What are the options when getting a child to sleep? Guts to follow your gut?Sleep easy
Chapter 3: Preschool and School-Aged Children: The Rainbow of Sleep Problems
How do preschool and school-aged children sleep?
What sleep problems might children experience?
Can't sleep, won't sleep: sleep refusal and insomnia
Things that go bump in the night: dreams and nightmares
A fright in the night: sleep terrors
Walking by night: sleepwalking
Snoring babies! Sleep-disordered breathing
The still of night
Waking wet: bedwetting
Narcolepsy
Sleep paralysis --
a waking nightmare
Exploding head syndrome
Help!
Just go to sleep! Chapter 4: Laaazzzy? Adolescents' SleepAre adolescents as lazy as they sometimes seem?
It's too bright
It's been a long day
Not feeling sleepy?
Why did teenage owls evolve?
But not all adolescents like a lie-in!
Those genetic differences
TV to watch! No time for sleep
Epigenetics: above the genome
Social jetlag
What to do?
What else is going on with adolescent sleep?
The friendship effect
Adolescence: a key juncture
Chapter 5: Sleep in Youth: Sleep, Atypical Development and Mental Health
Sleep in children with disorders of brain development When restless nights follow restless daysFeeling blue and can't sleep
Sleep and suicide
Too scared to sleep
Missing sleep and feeling psychotic
Avoiding a rest: missing out on sleep and behaving badly
How do problems unfold over time?
Treat one, treat the other
Chapter 6: Becoming an Adult: A Sleep a Day Helps Us Work, Rest and Play
Sleeping adults
Sleep and brain functioning
Beauty sleep
Heavy sleep
Workout to sleep
Work hard, rest hard
Rest hard, work hard
Driving all night: sleep and car accidents
Chapter 7: Sleep During the Rush-Hour Years of Our Lives Insomnia and the cityWhy does insomnia come and stay?
How to make it go away: our thoughts and behaviours
Medication for insomnia
Sleeping with someone
How a partner's sleep can drive you to despair
Call the lawyers: seeking a sleep divorce
Sleep and pregnancy
Sleep and parenthood
Parents' sleep: When does it return to its former glory?
Parents SOS (save our sleep)
Sleep and work
Some jobs
At what cost?
How to reconcile the incompatibility of sleep and work
Pushing 40 and still no sleep
Chapter 8: It's a Long Hard Night: The Sleep of Older Adults
Senior sleep

Polecaj historie

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