Sleep Science Edited by Hawley Montgomery-Downs
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BOOK REVIEW
Sleep Science Edited by Hawley Montgomery‑Downs 475 pages, Oxford University Press, Oxford, UK. Matthew R. Lujan1 · Michael A. Grandner1 Published online: 13 November 2020 © Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2020
Keywords Students · Sleep · Review · Textbook · Science With the importance of sleep growing in the public eye, good introductions to the topic are important for welcoming newcomers to the field and reinforcing the fundamentals to those already familiar with them. Because of this trend, new texts covering these ideas have been proliferating. The book Sleep Science (Oxford University Press), edited by Hawley Montgomery-Downs [1], invites readers by eloquently and succinctly laying out the fundamental principles in this field. Throughout the book, concepts are laid out with clarity and simplicity to accommodate both beginners and experts. The book employs the use of clear, detailed examples combined with vivid, informative figures to illustrate these fundamental concepts to the reader. Sleep Science is divided into four distinct parts. It begins with a quick-paced, crash course in the physiology and science behind sleep. First, the authors discuss the important relationship between sleep and consciousness. In this way, the complicated question of “What is sleep?” is answered. In answering this question, the basics of sleep staging as well as early sleep theories are discussed to give light to where the understanding of sleep is today. Chapter 1 covers the basics of sleep and the history of the field of sleep research. The second chapter of the book continues with a discussion of sleep across the animal kingdom. Chapter 3 addresses the basics of sleep physiology and neurophysiology. Chapter 4 introduces circadian rhythms and circadian physiology. Chapter 5 discusses cultural and other issues around sleep in infancy. Chapter 6 covers the history of dreaming. The
* Michael A. Grandner [email protected] 1
Sleep and Health Research Program, Department of Psychiatry, University of Arizona College of Medicine, 1501 N Campbell Ave, PO Box 245002, Tucson, AZ, USA
last chapter in this section, Chapter 7, covers the issues of cognition and memory as they relate to sleep. The second part illustrates a lifetime of sleep. Chapter 8 begins with neural development and infancy, this chapter highlights the changes that occur throughout development. Chapter 9 continues with Child Development, and Chapter 10 progresses to adolescence and emerging adulthood. Chapter 11 focuses on adulthood, and Chapter 12 focuses on issues related to aging. Chapter 13 is a unique and important chapter in this section, which delves into the relationship between women’s health and its implications for sleep health. This chapter highlights the sleep disturbances and alterations that occur in a woman’s lifetime such as during the physiological changes of menstruation and menopause. Part 3 describes the effects of sleep disturbances and the prominent disorders underlying these disturbances. This section begins with Chapte
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