Sleepfaring

An engaging account of what science has found out about sleep, and problems related to sleep - from snoring to sleep apnoea.

Jim Horne is Professor of Psychophysiology and Director of the Sleep Research Centre at the University of Loughborough. He is frequently called upon to discuss topics related to sleep on radio and television, and writes regularly for the broadsheets and for scientific magazines. Previous publications include Why We Sleep (1990, OUP).

Preface
1: Petunias, one eyed ducks and rolly-polly mice
2: By the brain for the brain
3: The Substance of Sleep
4: Reality
5: Then
6: Odd Behaviour
7: Skin and Bones
8: Sleepiness
9: Higher Matters
10: Crashing Out
11: Time of Life
12: Time Travellers
13: Good night
14: REM sleep
15: Or REM wakefulness?
16: Cinema of the mind
17: The long, the short and the less
18: Are we chronically sleep deprived?
19: Things that go bump in the night
20: A ruffled mind makes a restless pillow
21: Snoring, gasping and jumping
22: Children
23: Fare thee well
Appendix: Are you a lark, an owl, or neither?