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Nightmares: The Science and Solution of Those Frightening Visions During Sleep

ISBN13：9780313345128
出版社：Praeger Pub Text
作者：Patrick McNamara
裝訂：精裝
出版日：2008/07/30
關鍵字： Nightmares: The Science and Solution of Those Frightening Visions During Sleep、 Nightmares、 The、 Science、 and、 Solution、 of、 Those、 Frightening、 Visions、 During、 Sleep、 Praeger Pub Text、 Patrick McNamara、外文書、人文社科、心理學、 Subconscious & altered states、

杜威圖書分類： Subconscious & altered states

定價：NT$ 4125 元

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We've nearly all been there at least once - awakened with a pounding heart and the memory of frightening scenes that seemed so real, but were conjured up and existed only in the sleeping mind. Nightmares affect people across countries and cultures, with some 10 percent of the world's population reporting recurrent nightmares. Parents have reported, and science has recorded, nightmares in children as young as 18 months old. Up to 40 percent of children aged 2 to 12 experience nightmares, as do some 35 percent of veterans and 50 percent of adults with chronic illness. With this book, a psychologist widely known in his field shows how nightmares evolved and were useful to ancestral populations, and why nightmares may carry beneficial functional effects even today for people who suffer from the pulse-pumping dreams. McNamara brings us up to date on the biology of nightmares and what, specifically, happens in the brain during the event. He also explains the history and development of nightmares and likely causes, including traumatic events, psychological and physical disorders, and commonly consumed medications.

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Patrick McNamara is Director of the Evolutionary Neurobehavior Laboratory at VA New England Health Care System and Associate Professor in the Department of Neurology at Boston University School of Medicine. He is also Series Editor for the Praeger series Brain, Behavior, and Evolution. McNamara is trained in Neurocognitive Science. He is a member of the Sleep Research Society and the Association for the Study of Dreams. He is currently researching problems of the evolution and phylogeny of REM and NREM sleep states.