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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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...
评分来自美国国家睡眠基金会（https://sleepfoundation.org/），帮大家翻译个小标题。做得到做不到看个人了！ 1. Maintain a Consistent Bedtime and Wake Time 该睡睡、该起起，每天有个准点儿 Our sleep cycles are regulated by the “circadian clock” in our brains. By ma...
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...
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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Rem is important. Deep sleep is important. Regular sleep time is important.
评分六颗星！整本书把所有和“睡觉”有关的科学知识非常想尽的写下来，重点是还写得极其有趣。发现好多设计实验的内容和过程也都特别好玩，包括历史上最早研究人类睡眠周期的科学家把自己关在“暗无天日的”山洞里的故事，等等。唯一的小bug是作者为了强调充足睡眠的重要性，举例说切尔诺贝利事件可能是sleep deprivation造成的，有点失偏颇啦。（当然，按照朋友调侃的话说，你懂这么多，依然也睡不好觉呀，这本书并不能真的帮你解决很多失眠问题，但是依然是本很棒的书呀）
评分给自己爱睡觉找到了理由，发现确实如此
评分六颗星！整本书把所有和“睡觉”有关的科学知识非常想尽的写下来，重点是还写得极其有趣。发现好多设计实验的内容和过程也都特别好玩，包括历史上最早研究人类睡眠周期的科学家把自己关在“暗无天日的”山洞里的故事，等等。唯一的小bug是作者为了强调充足睡眠的重要性，举例说切尔诺贝利事件可能是sleep deprivation造成的，有点失偏颇啦。（当然，按照朋友调侃的话说，你懂这么多，依然也睡不好觉呀，这本书并不能真的帮你解决很多失眠问题，但是依然是本很棒的书呀）
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