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Miller, Michelle A., Wright, Hayley, Hough, Josie and Cappuccio, Francesco (2014) Sleep and cognition. In: Idzikowski, Chris, (ed.) Sleep and its disorders affect society. InTech. ISBN 9789535117254
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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.5772/58735
Abstract
Sleep is an ancestral and primitive behaviour, an important part of life thought to be essential for restoration of body and mind. As adults, we spend approximately a third of our lives asleep and as we progress through life there are certain shifts in sleep architecture, most notably in sleep quantity. These biological or physiological age-dependent changes in sleep are well documented [1], and alongside the shifts in sleep architecture there is an increased susceptibility to certain sleep disorders.
Sleep disturbances and sleep deprivation are common in modern society. Most studies show that since the beginning of the century, populations have been subjected to a steady constant decline in the number of hours devoted to sleep. This is due to changes in a variety of environmental and social conditions (e.g. less dependence on daylight for most activities, extended shift work and 24/7 round-the-clock activities)
| Item Type: | Book Item | ||||
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| Subjects: | R Medicine > R Medicine (General) R Medicine > RC Internal medicine > RC0321 Neuroscience. Biological psychiatry. Neuropsychiatry |
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| Divisions: | Faculty of Medicine > Warwick Medical School > Health Sciences > Mental Health and Wellbeing Faculty of Medicine > Warwick Medical School > Biomedical Sciences > Translational & Experimental Medicine > Metabolic and Vascular Health (- until July 2016) Faculty of Medicine > Warwick Medical School |
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| Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Sleep, Sleep disorders -- Social aspects, Sleep -- physiological aspects | ||||
| Publisher: | InTech | ||||
| ISBN: | 9789535117254 | ||||
| Book Title: | Sleep and its disorders affect society | ||||
| Editor: | Idzikowski, Chris | ||||
| Official Date: | 24 September 2014 | ||||
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| Number of Pages: | 28 | ||||
| DOI: | 10.5772/58735 | ||||
| Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||
| Publication Status: | Published | ||||
| Access rights to Published version: | Open Access | ||||
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