Stories
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How depression ruined my relationship with sleep
One reaction to depression is a craving for sleep, creating a dependence that can provoke guilt and anxiety. Emerging from “five blurry years”, one writer tracks her steps to better health.
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How light pollution affects our circadian rhythms
Too much of the wrong sort of light can send our natural cycles off-kilter – is city life messing with your circadian rhythm?
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Ayọ̀bámi Adébáyọ̀’s prescription for writing
The Wellcome Book Prize shortlisted author of ‘Stay With Me’ answers five questions on health, inspiration and storytelling.
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Winter blues and the story of SAD
In ‘Chasing the Sun‘ Linda Geddes reveals why for some people, winter is literally depressing, showing how we first came to recognise seasonal affective disorder (SAD).
Catalogue
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Evolution of sleep : stages of the formation of the 'wakefulness-sleep' cycle in vertebrates / Ida Gavrilovna Karmanova ; translation from Russian by A.I. Koryushkin and O.P. Uchastkin with editorial assistance by Werner P. Koella.
Karmanova, I. G. (Ida Gavrilovna)Date: [1982], ©1982- Books
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Recueil de faits : le sommeil normal, comme le sommeil hypnotique, est le résultat d'une inhibition de l'activité intellectuelle / par M. Brown-Séquard.
Brown-Séquard, Charles-Edouard, 1817-1894.Date: [1889?]- Books
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The intra-cranial circulation and its relation to the physiology of the brain / by James Cappie.
Date: 1890- Videos
Why do we dream?.
Date: 2009- Books
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Powers of the roots of the nerves in health and in disease ; likewise, On magnetic sleep / by Herbert Mayo.
Mayo, Herbert, 1796-1852.Date: 1837