sleep disorders

"This reference covers all of the major topics concerning dreaming and sleep, based on the latest empirical evidence from sleep research as well as drawn from a broad range of disciplinary contexts, including history, and anthropology"--Provided by publisher.

101 questions from high school students around the country that examines the physical, emotional, and social issuessurrounding sleep and dreams.

A reference guide to over eighty sleep disorders, featuring alphabetically arranged entries that examine and discuss terms, conditions, remedies, and advances in sleep research and sleep disorder treatment. Includes cross-references and an index.

Discusses the importance of sleep, various sleep disorders, the dangers of taking drugs to induce sleep, and healthy alternative methods to getting good rest.

Examines the link between prions, ordinary proteins that go wrong, and a wide range of strange neurological illnesses that strike people and animals around the world, and explains how the rise in prion-linked illnesses can be attributed to human greed and ambition.

Terrified by the gruesome nightmares and unexplained bouts of sleepwalking that seem to be affecting her and many other students at Saint Opportuna High, Emma and her friends become even more unnerved when, after several deaths, they begin to suspect that something is causing them to kill in their sleep.

Provides an introduction to a wide range of sleep disorders while combining the benefits of nonfiction and reference formats. Includes full-color photographs and illustrations, objective overviews, primary sources, visual chronology, research sources, facts and statistics.

This book discusses sleep disorders, a group of syndromes characterized by disturbance in the patient's amount of sleep, quality or timing of sleep, or in behaviors or physiological conditions associated with sleep, including information on sleep apnea, narcolepsy, sleep paralysis, and more.

Includes facts about why people need sleep, sleep patterns, circadian rhythms, dreaming, insomnia, sleep apnea, narcolepsy, and more.