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How to use the insights of neuroscience and the techniques of mindfulness to get a good night's sleep. Everyone's familiar with the consequences of lost sleep: you're groggy and irritable, your focus is off, you don't perform at your best, and you're likely to dump sugary foods and caffeine into...

We have spent decades optimizing our waking hours, but what about the precious hours after we doze off (or try to)? As the most active time for our brains and the most important element to a calmer, happier life, sleep has become the topic of our times. Drawing on the success of Calm, the #1 app...

The reason we need sleep has long mystified scientists, but it’s crystal clear that we do need it. In fact, the more we learn about what happens while we snooze, the more we discover new benefits for multiple processes including hormone balance, immune function, emotional health, learning, and memory. Studies show that even one night of disturbed rest leads to measurable impairments, and for this mini-collection, we’ve gathered the most recent research on the mechanisms of sleep.

'Goed slapen kan iedereen, je moet alleen weten hoe. Jarenlang sliep Jelmer zeer slecht. De ene nacht kon hij urenlang niet in slaap komen, de andere werd hij wel acht keer per nacht wakker. Wat hij ook probeerde om een goede nachtrust te krijgen, niets hielp. Pas toen hij onder behandeling kwam van somnoloog Alexander van Daele lukte het hem eindelijk om zijn slaapproblemen de baas te worden. Ze besloten samen dit boek te schrijven om andere slechtslapers te helpen een betere nachtrust te krijgen.

Like many of us, journalist David K. Randall never gave sleep much thought. That is, until he began sleepwalking. One midnight crash into a hallway wall sent him on an investigation into the strange science of sleep. In Dreamland, Randall explores the research that is investigating those dark hours that make up nearly a third of our lives.

Leading sleep researcher Rosalind Cartwright brings together decades of work on sleep, dreaming, and sleep disorders to propose a new theory of how the mind works continuously. Drawing on her own research and that of others, Cartwright describes how conscious and unconscious thoughts and feelings move forward - from waking, into sleep and dreaming, to the next waking day. One main purpose of sleep is to regulate disturbing emotions. Not everyone does this successfully every night.

Getting a good night’s sleep on a regular basis is essential to living a happy and healthy life, but why is it harder for some of us than others? How do our sleeping patterns change throughout our lives, and what are the long-term effects for bad sleepers? These are the types of questions that jump into every person’s head while they toss and turn, unable to ‘drop off’.

Muchos científicos han afirmado que conocemos mejor el universo exterior que el que tenemos dentro de nuestra cabeza. La doctora en neurociencia Estefanía Estévez, reconocida divulgadora y conferenciante, nos lleva de viaje a los secretos de nuestro cerebro durante el descanso. Narrada por esta joven investigadora, comprender cómo opera el dispositivo más sofisticado del universo nos ayudará a cuidarlo mejor de modo que trabaje a nuestro favor.