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Chapter 1
| Petunias, one-eyed ducks, and roly-poly mice Do plants sleep?; Half asleep; Fitful sleepers; The great immobilizer; Stress | Chapter 12 | Good night Self-reports; Moving |
Chapter 2 | By the brain, for the brain Brain strain; Sleeping like a baby; Memory | Chapter 13 | Brain waves Ripples and rollers; Really slow waves; Brain work |
Chapter 3 | The substance of sleep Guts of the matter; Essences; Feeding; Stimulants-and coffee houses | Chapter 14 | REM sleep Jerky eyes; Confinement; Fragile; More or less; Safety; Paralysis; Bursts of activity; Primitive? |
Chapter 4 | Then Valiant Gilbert; Indefatigable Randy; Famous four; Statistically significant | Chapter 15 | Or REM wakefulness? Screen saver; More on memory; Fear; A disorder of sleep or of wakefulness?; In a nutshell; And finally |
Chapter 5 | Odd behaviour The floor seems wavy; Brain washing; The largest, longest, study; Euphoria | Chapter 16 | Cinema of the mind Imagery; Fascinating facts; Difficulties; Interpretation; Depressing dreams; The future |
Chapter 6 | Skin and bones Do we grow in our sleep?; Beauty and radiance; Night starvation; Renewal | Chapter 17 | The long, the short, and the less Normal sleepers; Very short sleepers; Moresleep; Less sleep; Leonardo da Vinci |
Chapter 7 | Sleepiness Feeding the mind; Spare capacity; Microsleeps; Demanding tasks; The eyes have it; Yawning gaps | Chapter 18 | Are we chronically sleep-deprived? Irony; Did we sleep for longer?; Time in bed; Healthy sleep; Hidden sleepiness; Supersensitivity?; Self-insight; Sleepability; The dip; Semantics; Plus ça change |
Chapter 8 | Higher Matters Executives; What makes us human?; Lost for words; Flexibility; Gambling and gamboling; Tedium; Lost time; The big picture; Artificial ageing? | Chapter 19 | Things that go bump in the night Sleeplessness; The Victorians; Seniors |
Chapter 9 | Crashing out The cost; Tell-tale signs; Deadly hours; Sleep disorders?; Denial; Guilty or not guilty?; Practical countermeasures; Greater awareness | Chapter 20 | A ruffled mind makes a restless pillow Insomnia-disorder of wakefulness; Anger and frustration; Procrustes; Tricks of time; Pills; Keep cool; Bugs and hygiene; Depression; Therapy; Beds |
Chapter 10 | Time of life Body clock; Sleep time; Larks and owls; In the dark of the night; Ebb and Flow | Chapter 21 | Snoring, gasping and jumping Breathtaking; Better news; Gasping; Alcohol; Legs |
Chapter 11 | Time travelers Eight versus twelve; Naps; Enlightenment; Coping; Jet lag | Chapter 22 | Children What is normal?; Off to sleep; Night feeding; Snoring; Nightmares; Sleepwalking and wandering; Sleep terrors; Fits, rolling, and rocking; Bedwetting; Sleep talking and tooth grinding; The teens-too late, too little; Postscript |
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The following slide presentations were presented on Monday, Jun 8, 2009 as part of the clinical workshop titled, “Sleep, Wake and Traumatic Brain Injury.”
CK is a 43 year old male without significant past medical history who presents to his primary care physician with an 8 week history of generalized fatigue and malaise.