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Sleep, April 2008
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A Groundbreaking Guide to the Mysteries, the Problems, and the Solutions
Avery
April 2008
On Sale: March 27, 2008
294 pages ISBN: 1583333010 EAN: 9781583333013 Paperback
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The average adult will spend more than 200,000 hours sleeping
in a lifetime, the equivalent of more than 8,000 days. Yet
research has
only just begun to decode the mysteries behind what really
happens when
we sleep. Now Dr. Carlos Schenck, one of the most prominent
sleep
doctors and researchers in the country, takes us on an
extraordinary
journey into the mechanisms of sleep and what can go wrong.
Dr. Schenck explains and then offers solutions for the most
common
sleep disorders-insomnia, restless legs syndrome, sleep
apnea, and
more. But what sets this book apart is the fascinating new
insights
Schenck offers from the cutting-edge science that he and other
researchers have pioneered in identifying, understanding, and
explaining the realm of "parasomnias"- mysterious, more
extreme sleep
disorders such as sleep terrors, sleepwalking,
dream-enactment, sleep
violence, sleep-related eating disorder, sexsomnia, sleep
paralysis,
which affect at least 10 percent of Americans. Sleep offers
fascinating-and often shocking-real-life stories drawn from
Carlos
Schenck's more than twenty years of clinical practice and
research to
illustrate the sometimes terrifying, debilitating, and even
life-threatening experiences that those with parasomnias can
suffer
from, along with their loved ones. Backed by the latest medical
research, Sleep is a groundbreaking book about what
continues to be one
of most mysterious and compelling medical puzzles.
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