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The Secret World Of Sleep: How The Nighttime Brain Creates Consciousness (2013)

by Penelope A. Lewis(Favorite Author)

3.4 of 5 Votes: 3

ISBN

0230107591 (ISBN13: 9780230107595)

languge

English

genre

Nonfiction

publisher

Palgrave Macmillan

review 1: Disclosures:This book was a goodreads win.I found the book both interesting and irritating so skipped through it looking for the "good parts" thus not actually read all of it.I suspect this book was written with middle school students as one target audience. The descriptions are quite accessible for someone without a science background and it has lots of analogies to help explain brain functions. The analogies are what irritated me. Lewis seemed to be anthropomorphizing cells. This could be helpful for young people and for adults tackling a completely foreign subject,but it put me off. The book also contains a helpful chapter on how to get the sleep you need. For some people, that alone is reason to read the book.
review 2: For readers who desire a straight-up ... moredescription of what we know about the impact of sleep on memory, mood, and cognition, based on experimental evidence, this book is probably a 4 or even a 5. For a summary of how to maximize the probability of a good night's sleep, just read the last chapter. Lewis' book does not incorporate the latest research about the housekeeping functions of the sleeping brain, nor other functions of sleep, perhaps because this research is so new. less

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