Matthew Walker is a professor of neuroscience and psychology at UC Berkeley, the Director of its Sleep and Neuroimaging Lab, and a former professor of psychiatry at Harvard University. He has published over 100 scientific studies and has appeared on 60 Minutes, Nova, BBC News, and NPR’s Science Friday. Why We Sleep is his first book.
The first sleep book by a leading scientific expert—Professor Matthew Walker, Director of UC Berkeley’s Sleep and Neuroimaging Lab—reveals his groundbreaking exploration of sleep, explaining how we can harness its transformative power to change our lives for the better.
Sleep is one of the most important but least understood aspects of our life, wellness, and longevity. Until very recently, science had no answer to the question of why we sleep, or what good it served, or why we suffer such devastating health consequences when we don't sleep. Compared to the other basic drives in life—eating, drinking, and reproducing—the purpose of sleep remained elusive.
An explosion of scientific discoveries in the last twenty years has shed new light on this fundamental aspect of our lives. Now, preeminent neuroscientist and sleep expert Matthew Walker gives us a new understanding of the vital importance of sleep and dreaming. Within the brain, sleep enriches our ability to learn, memorize, and make logical decisions. It recalibrates our emotions, restocks our immune system, fine-tunes our metabolism, and regulates our appetite. Dreaming mollifies painful memories and creates a virtual reality space in which the brain melds past and present knowledge to inspire creativity.
Walker answers important questions about sleep: how do caffeine and alcohol affect sleep? What really happens during REM sleep? Why do our sleep patterns change across a lifetime? How do common sleep aids affect us and can they do long-term damage? Charting cutting-edge scientific breakthroughs, and synthesizing decades of research and clinical practice, Walker explains how we can harness sleep to improve learning, mood, and energy levels; regulate hormones; prevent cancer, Alzheimer’s, and diabetes; slow the effects of aging; increase longevity; enhance the education and lifespan of our children, and boost the efficiency, success, and productivity of our businesses. Clear-eyed, fascinating, and accessible, Why We Sleep is a crucial and illuminating book
睡眠太少时,让你感到饥饿的激素浓度会提升,而另一种告诉我们已经吃饱的激素会受到抑制。虽然你已经饱了,却还想再吃。睡眠不足,保证体重增加,对成人和儿童都一样。 人类是唯一会在无益的情况下故意剥夺自己睡眠的生物。 睡眠丰富了各种脑功能,包括学习、记忆、做出合理决...
评分 评分 评分认真对待睡眠这事 这篇文章写给家人,妈妈今年56了,人生步入中年,睡眠质量越来越重要,从我上高中时,她就说睡不好,可是,我却从没有去研究过更年期妇女的睡眠情况应该如何改善,其实当时完全可以去图书馆去书店去谷歌上找到相应的论文和实践,去改善家庭睡眠质量,可惜,只...
评分Rem is important. Deep sleep is important. Regular sleep time is important.
评分介绍了很多比较新的关于睡眠和梦的实验和理论,挺好的。另外也附有很实用的助睡指南,最关键的一条:每天按时睡觉按时起床。
评分也许并不是动物进化出了睡觉这件事,而是动物最原始的状态就是睡眠状态,进化让动物能周期性地“醒过来”If sleep does not serve an absolutely vital function, then it is the biggest mistake the evolutionary process has ever made. Wake: reception,NREM: reflection (storing&strengthening raw ingredients), REM: integration (interconnecting,building a more accurate model, innovative insights&problem-solving
评分给自己爱睡觉找到了理由,发现确实如此
评分《Why We Sleep》的作者是一位名叫Matthew Waler的睡眠学专家,看完了这本书,才明白「晚上睡不好」带来的问题,绝对不仅仅是「白天很疲倦」,而是非常非常可怕的各种智力低下、生理疾病、心理障碍、性格缺陷,甚至有生命危险。关键这些结论都不是凭空臆造,而是经过二十多年无数例的科学试验得出的。 睡眠比饮食和运动更重要。如果剥夺一个人睡眠、或食物、或运动24小时,睡眠伤害最大;每晚睡少于6小时的45岁以上的人,比睡7-8小时的人得心梗和脑梗的概率高200%。睡眠不足会变傻,容易得老年痴呆症。 虽然看似老生常谈,但睡眠这个看似日常的小事情,却是事关性命的大事情。睡的好是福气,睡不好是自己不够重视。睡眠,才是人生正经事,是生命最好的修行。规律作息,早睡早起,持之以恒,受益终生!
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