TY - CHAP
T1 - Sleep regulation and insomnia
AU - van Someren, E.J.W.
AU - Cluydts, R.
PY - 2013
Y1 - 2013
N2 - For years, the subject of sleep failed to generate much interest from either the field of medicine or that of psychology - a curious fact, as a 60-year-old has spent some 20 years out of those 60 sleeping. In fact, up until the age of approximately three years, a child spends more time asleep than awake. It would be an extraordinary evolutionary oversight if this phenomenon of sleep, which is seen in virtually all organisms, did not have an important and vital function (McNamara 2009). The consequences of sleep deprivation make themselves known by interfering with our emotional and cognitive functioning on the following day, when one may also experience the imperative nature of sleep, sometimes at very inconvenient moments (Cluydts 2003).
AB - For years, the subject of sleep failed to generate much interest from either the field of medicine or that of psychology - a curious fact, as a 60-year-old has spent some 20 years out of those 60 sleeping. In fact, up until the age of approximately three years, a child spends more time asleep than awake. It would be an extraordinary evolutionary oversight if this phenomenon of sleep, which is seen in virtually all organisms, did not have an important and vital function (McNamara 2009). The consequences of sleep deprivation make themselves known by interfering with our emotional and cognitive functioning on the following day, when one may also experience the imperative nature of sleep, sometimes at very inconvenient moments (Cluydts 2003).
U2 - 10.1007/978-1-4614-1997-6_67
DO - 10.1007/978-1-4614-1997-6_67
M3 - Chapter
SN - 9781461419969
SP - 1889
EP - 1916
BT - Neuroscience in the 21st Century. From Basic to Clinical
A2 - Pfaff, D.W.
PB - Springer
CY - New York
ER -