具体描述
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
作者简介
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.
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读后感
The internet never sleeps. but we should not underestimate the power and importance of sleep. why is morning a balm (慰籍something that gives you comfort)to some and a bane (祸根someting that causes trouble or make people unhappy)to others ? it all depends ...
评分 评分看的比较快 trim了比较多（尤其是最后关于整个社会怎么改善大家睡眠的部分lol） 还是一本不错的书的，讲的内容非常重要。但可能因为之前通过一些杂七杂八的渠道（其实有这个作者的一个演讲）已经了解了一些，所以看的时候没有“特别惊艳”的感觉。个人比较喜欢前半部分（睡眠的...
评分 评分睡眠太少时，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...
用户评价
实话实说我感觉比较一般，话题是老生常谈了，睡觉很重要，重要到睡不好会导致种种疾病甚至死亡。也可能是我get不到当中的逻辑。前几个月开始听，一直很催眠，到今天终于决定听完。也许催眠就达成了这本书的目的吧。睡前读纸质书和电子书还是有差的，读电子书会抑制身体释放melatonin。不用错觉自己insomnia，being sleep deprived is not insomnia。不过being sleep deprived也没有比insomnia好到哪里去。
评分非常有用也比较有意思的一本书，向所有读者群推荐（NY Times Bestseller)。书以一个问题开始：我们（虫鱼鸟兽一切动物）为什么要睡觉？为什么生物经过这么漫长的进化，还一直保留着睡觉这个看起来会极大降低存活率（比如睡着了很容易被偷袭）的机制？水里需要不停游动的鱼类，或者需要跨洋级别长期飞行的鸟类都各自进化出了一些像一次只睡半边脑之类的 workaround 也无法完全避开睡觉，究竟是为什么？ 当然书并没有给出答案的完整刻画，因为完整的刻画应该还是生物研究中的谜题之一，但是书给出了一个很重要的定性答案：睡觉并不（仅仅）是一种休息（比如，像电脑休眠那样，机能停止运行），而是一种 ……（字数限制，见长书评吧。。。）
评分实话实说我感觉比较一般，话题是老生常谈了，睡觉很重要，重要到睡不好会导致种种疾病甚至死亡。也可能是我get不到当中的逻辑。前几个月开始听，一直很催眠，到今天终于决定听完。也许催眠就达成了这本书的目的吧。睡前读纸质书和电子书还是有差的，读电子书会抑制身体释放melatonin。不用错觉自己insomnia，being sleep deprived is not insomnia。不过being sleep deprived也没有比insomnia好到哪里去。
评分实话实说我感觉比较一般，话题是老生常谈了，睡觉很重要，重要到睡不好会导致种种疾病甚至死亡。也可能是我get不到当中的逻辑。前几个月开始听，一直很催眠，到今天终于决定听完。也许催眠就达成了这本书的目的吧。睡前读纸质书和电子书还是有差的，读电子书会抑制身体释放melatonin。不用错觉自己insomnia，being sleep deprived is not insomnia。不过being sleep deprived也没有比insomnia好到哪里去。
评分作为一个以研究睡眠为生的人，我最开始觉得，写睡眠的科普书对我还有什么新意？故而虽然早在一年前就听过作者的新鲜空气访谈，还是没有找来看。但真正听完了全书，却意外地发现自己学到很多新东西，也许是因为背景知识储备比较充分，所以新东西容易吸收，但同时确实也是因为作者写得清楚有条理，而且在很多地方，尤其是睡眠在进化中的作用、以及睡眠的神经机制方面有很多独到见解。总之非常推荐。
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