书名：Why We Sleep: The New Science of Sleep and Dreams我们为什么睡觉：有关睡眠和梦的新科学

作者：Matthew Walker
出版社名称：Penguin
出版时间：2018
语种：英文
ISBN：9780141983769
商品尺寸：12.9 x 2.1 x 19.8 cm
包装：平装
页数：368

★揭露关于睡眠的突破性研究成果，运用睡眠的力量，改善自我生活

睡眠是我们生命健康和长寿的重要方面之一，但它在二十一世纪的社会中越来越被忽视，带来诸多严重的后果：当今世界的许多的主要疾病——阿尔茨海默症，癌症，肥胖，糖尿病等，都与睡眠不足有关。

经过多年的研究，科学家发现，大脑透过充足的睡眠，可以增进许多能力，例如学习、记忆和做出合理的决策。睡眠甚至能重新校准我们的情绪、改善免疫系统、调节新陈代谢和调节胃口。睡眠与而作梦能帮助我们化解痛苦的记忆，为过去和现在的知识创造虚拟空间，从而激发更多创造力。

本书Why We Sleep: The New Science of Sleep and Dreams《我们为什么睡觉：有关睡眠和梦的新科学》解析先进的科学发现，结合数十年的研究成果及临床经验，神经学家及睡眠专家Matthew Walker将为我们揭开睡眠的神秘面纱，重启你对睡眠的认知与重视。

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Sleep is one of the most important aspects of our life, health and longevity and yet it is increasingly neglected in twenty-first-century society, with devastating consequences: every major disease in the developed world - Alzheimer's, cancer, obesity, diabetes - has very strong causal links to deficient sleep.
In this book, the first of its kind written by a scientific expert, Professor Matthew Walker explores twenty years of cutting-edge research to solve the mystery of why sleep matters. Looking at creatures from across the animal kingdom as well as major human studies, Why We Sleep delves into everything from what really happens during REM sleep to how caffeine and alcohol affect sleep and why our sleep patterns change across a lifetime, transforming our appreciation of the extraordinary phenomenon that safeguards our existence.

Review
“Passionate, urgent… it had a powerful effect on me” (Rachel Cooke Observer)

“Compelling and utterly convincing . . . you'll never think of your bedtime in the same way again”(James McConnachie The Sunday Times)

“A stimulating and important book… richly packed with science” (Clive Cookson Financial Times)

“Uplifting… Walker is in love with sleep and wants us to fall in love with sleep, too”(David Kamp The New York Times)

“Matthew Walker is probably one of the most influential people on the planet” (Katie Law Evening Standard)

“Astonishing ... an amazing book ... absolutely chocker full of things that we need to know”(Chris Evans)

咖啡因和酒精如何影响睡眠？
快速眼动睡眠期，身体究竟有什么变化？
常见的辅助睡眠产品是否真能改善睡眠品质，长期使用是否会造成伤害？
……

作者在这本横跨心理学、医学、脑科学、神经学、行为学、遗传和基因学、生物学、进化论的书中，不仅系统地阐述了睡眠、梦境和大脑的关系，还将生物学内容作为整本书知识体系的补充。他没有在“潜意识”“本我”“超我”等精神分析学派的领域深入探讨，而是选择从情绪、行为、生理心理学和生物遗传学的角度切入，探讨了“睡眠”和“梦境”对生物、人类和社会的巨大影响。

Matthew Walker's fascination with sleep has taken him from Nottingham to Harvard and on to the University of California, Berkeley, where he is currently Professor of Neuroscience and Psychology and Director of the Sleep and Neuroimaging Laboratory. He has published over 100 scientific research studies during the course of his twenty-year career. Why We Sleep is his first book.
Part 1 This Thing Called Sleep

Part 2 Why Should You Sleep?
Part 3 How and Why We Dream
Part 4 From Sleeping Pills to Society Transformed

I doubt you are surprised by this fact, but you may be surprised by the consequences. Routinely sleeping less than six or seven hours a night demolishes your immune system, more than doubling your risk of cancer. Insufficient sleep is a key lifestyle factor determining whether or not you will develop Alzheimer’s disease.Inadequate sleep—even moderate reductions for just one week—disrupts blood sugar levels so profoundly that you would be classified as pre-diabetic. Short sleeping increases the likelihood of your coronary arteries becoming blocked and brittle, setting you on a path toward cardiovascular disease, stroke, and congestive heart failure. Fitting Charlotte Brontë’s prophetic wisdom that “a ruffled mind makes a restless pillow:’ sleep disruption further contributes to all major psychiatric conditions, including depression, anxiety, and suicidality.
Perhaps you have also noticed a desire to cat more when you’re tired? This is no coincidence. Too little sleep swells concentrations of a hormone that makes you feel hungry while suppressing a companion hormone that otherwise signals food satisfaction. Despite being full, you still want to eat more. It’s a proven recipe for weight gain in sleep-deficient adults and children alike. Worse, should you attempt to diet but don’t get enough sleep while doing so, it is futile, since most of the weight you lose will come from lean body mass, not fat.
Add the above health consequences up, and a proven link becomes easier to accept: the shorter your sleep, the shorter your life span. The old maxim I’ll sleep when I’m dead” is therefore unfortunate. Adopt this mind-set, and you will be dead sooner and the quality of that (shorter) life will be worse. The elastic band of sleep deprivation can stretch only so far before it snaps. Sadly, human beings are in fact the only species that will deliberately deprive themselves of sleep without legitimate gain. Every component of wellness, and countless seams of societal fabric, are being eroded by our costly state of sleep neglect: human and financial alike. So much so that the World Health Organization (WHO) has now declared a sleep loss epidemic throughout industrialized nations. It is no coincidence that countries where sleep time has declined most dramatically over the past century, such as the US, the UK, Japan, and South Korea, and several in western Europe, are also those suffering the greatest increase in rates of the aforementioned physical diseases and mental disorders.