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March 2007
On Sale: March 1, 2007
320 pages
ISBN: 1583332707
EAN: 9781583332702
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Non-Fiction
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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