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The functions of sleep
- Author
- Hartmann, Ernest, 1934-
- Title
- The functions of sleep / Ernest L. Hartmann.
- Format
- Book
- Published
- New Haven : Yale University Press, 1973.
- Description
- ix, 198 pages ; 21 cm.
- Uniform series
- Yale fastback ; 13.
- Notes
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 165-187).
- Contents
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- Introduction
- Theories of the functions of sleep
- Recent sleep research
- Sleep deprivation
- Experiments in Nature: long and short sleepers
- Experiments in Nature: variable sleepers
- Experiments in Nature: age and pathological states
- Sleep as a response to behavioral or psychological variables
- Sleep as a response to physiological and neurophysiological variables
- Sleep as a response to chemical variables
- The psychology of tiredness
- The dream and the functions of sleep
- The functions of sleep: summary
- Implications: the chemistry of the mind and mind-brain relationships.
- Subject headings
- Sleep.
- Kinsey subjects
- Sleep.
- ISBN
- 0300017006 9780300017007 0300017014 (pbk.) 9780300017014 (pbk.)