Abstract:The "witchery of sleep" has historically been a topic of inquiry for many diverse scientific disciplines as well as a source of personal fascination for most people.The cry for sleep is ever greater than the cry for bread. Existence depends on both; but we eat to sleep, while we sleep to live. Sleep is of far greater importance than food for the preservation of life. [1, p. 21] This mysterious brew of an as-yet-undeciphered formula of genetic, electrophysiological, psychological, neurochemical, and molecula… Show more
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