Sleeplessness Assessing Sleep Need in Society Today /

• Main Author: Horne, Jim (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016.
• Subjects: Psychology.; Physical anthropology.; Biological psychology.; Cognitive psychology.; Critical psychology.; Cognitive Psychology.; Critical Psychology.; Biological Psychology.; Biological Anthropology.

This book critically evaluates the popular notion that today’s society is suffering from ‘sleep debt’, or what Horne calls ‘societal insomnia’ - an apparent chronic loss of sleep, which can lead to obesity and related physical and mental disorders including heart disease. It presents evidence which...

Table of Contents:

• Chapter 1. Insomnia
• Chapter 2. Sleep Debt: Societal Insomnia?
• Chapter 3. Short Sleep, Mortality and Illness
• Chapter 4. Obesity
• Chapter 5. Childhood and Adolescence
• Chapter 6. When is Enough, Enough?
• Chapter 7. Illumination
• Chapter 8. Sleepiness
• Chapter 9. Extreme Sleepiness
• Chapter 10. Brainwork
• Chapter 11. Prolonger Wakefulness
• Chapter 12. Use it or Lose it
• Chapter 13. REM Sleep: 'Food for Thought'?
• Chapter 14. Conclusion.