Sleep regulation and insomnia

E.J.W. van Someren, R. Cluydts

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Abstract

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).
Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationNeuroscience in the 21st Century. From Basic to Clinical
EditorsD.W. Pfaff
Place of PublicationNew York
PublisherSpringer
Pages1889-1916
ISBN (Print)9781461419969
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2013

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Number61

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