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The Neuroscience of Sleep and Dreams provides comprehensive coverage of the basic neuroscience of both sleep and dreams for upper-level undergraduate and graduate students. It details new scientific discoveries, places those discoveries within evolutionary context, and links established findings with implications for sleep medicine. This second edition focuses on recent developments in the social nature of sleep and dreams. Coverage includes the neuroscience of all stages of sleep; the lifespan development of these sleep stages; the role of non-REM and REM sleep in health and mental health; comparative sleep; biological rhythms; sleep disorders; sleep memory; dream content; dream phenomenology, and dream functions. Students, scientists, and interested non-specialists will find this book accessible and informative.
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JennieMW –
Arrived in excellent condition. Very pleased with purchase.
Amanda –
My high school students will enjoy the information in this book when we address sleep and dreams.
Carl F Dietz –
Excellent summary of the state of knowledge regarding sleep and dreams. Well organized into conceptual sections, the consensus view, and its justification in the literature. Serves as a great example of what a summary text can be.
Sheikh Ajaz Ahmad –
Have been reading it- so far so good.
Melissa Oestreich –
This book offers amazing insight into what happens when we sleep and dream. This is an excellent book that is a must read for any health enthusiast. The author has the humility to state what is and isn’t known about sleeping and dreaming. The author also states that undesirable consequences are more likely to happen for people who have vivid dreams often.
I emailed the author questions that I had after reading his book. He was kidn enough to answer them.
LM –
McNamara is a first-rate researcher who writes clearly, no obfuscating jargon, with scientific terms clearly defined. Six chapters address sleep, neuroscience & brain functioning, REM & NonREM, sleep disorders, integrative theories. Five chapters address dreams and discuss and integrate current research on content, type, functions, theories. Some cross-cultural material. This would be an excellent university text for a course exploring dreams or sleep.
Eva –
This book boasts of how its simple enough for the layman but also great for serious students and even neuroscientists who want to brush up their knowledge. This is a wildly untrue claim. The book is extremely basic, it lacks so much detail its hard to even read as it raises more questions than it answers. If you are looking for a complete raw intro this book is fabulous but, I can’t see any occasion where this should be used academically and I wish I’d saved to buy a textbook instead.
Seahorse –
the content might be good but the font is so small I almost need a magnifying glass to read it…it can’t be more than a 6 point font. Bummer. I’d skip the paperback, at least in Kindle you can enlarge the font and actually read it. Will not buy from this author or publisher again.
EIA –
Gran libro para introducirse en la neurociencia del sueño