![]() Nicholls is an amusing and perceptive host, leading us on a journey from Dionysius to Dante, Dickens to didgeridoos, as we discover just what our minds get up to when we’re asleep. This work is an affirmation of the importance of good sleep and offers evidence-based advice on how to avoid the devastation that results when sleep goes wrong. Narcolepsy affects some 3 million people around the world and is the perfect vantage point from which to survey the neuroscience behind circadian sleep disorders, sleep apnea, parasomnias like sleep walking and sleep sex, chronic insomnia, restless legs syndrome and sleep deprivation. ![]() In my 20s, I developed narcolepsy, a disabling condition marked by uncontrollable lapses into sleep during the daytime but also boasting a host of other symptoms that offer real connections to other common sleep disorders. ![]() Sleepyhead explores what sleep disorders have taught us about sleep, both bad and good. ![]()
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