Why We Sleep

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Why We Sleep: The New Science of Sleep and Dreams
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AuthorMatthew Walker, Ph.D.
LanguageEnglish
GenreScience book
Published3 October 2017, Penguin Random House
Pages368
ISBN978-0-241-26906-0 (Hardcover)

Why We Sleep: The New Science of Sleep and Dreams is a popular science book about sleep by the neuroscientist and sleep researcher, Matthew Walker.[1] Walker is a professor of neuroscience and psychology and the director of the Center for Human Sleep Science at the University of California, Berkeley.[2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9]

Walker spent four years writing the book,[10] in which he asserts that sleep deprivation is linked to numerous fatal diseases, including dementia.[11] The book became an international bestseller, including a #1 Sunday Times Bestseller in the UK,[12] and a New York Times Bestseller.[13]

Criticism[]

Why We Sleep has drawn criticism from Alexey Guzey, an independent researcher with a background in economics, in an essay entitled Matthew Walker's "Why We Sleep" Is Riddled with Scientific and Factual Errors,[14] and by Andrew Gelman, a statistician at Columbia University, who in his article indicated that Walker's purported removal of a bar from a graph could be a "smoking gun," commenting that it entered "research misconduct" territory.[15]

References[]

  1. ^ Walker, Matthew (2017). Why We Sleep: The New Science of Sleep and Dreams. Description & arrow/scrollable preview. Retrieved 15 October 2020.
  2. ^ Cooke, Rachel (2017-09-24). "The shorter your sleep, the shorter your life: the new sleep science". The Observer. ISSN 0029-7712. Retrieved 2017-09-24.
  3. ^ Gray, Richard. "Are you a sleep procrastinator?". Retrieved 2017-09-24.
  4. ^ Kamp, David (10 October 2017). "Exploring the Necessity and Virtue of Sleep". The New York Times. Retrieved 4 May 2018.
  5. ^ "Why We Sleep by Matthew Walker – for a longer life, press snooze". Financial Times. Retrieved 4 May 2018.
  6. ^ "Why We Sleep". Retrieved 4 May 2018.
  7. ^ Moody, Oliver (30 September 2017). "Review: Why We Sleep: The New Science of Sleep and Dreams by Matthew Walker". Retrieved 4 May 2018 – via www.thetimes.co.uk.
  8. ^ "Everything you need to know about sleep, but are too tired to ask". 17 October 2017. Retrieved 4 May 2018.
  9. ^ "Why We Sleep by Matthew Walker". Kirkus Reviews. Retrieved 4 May 2018.
  10. ^ O'Connell, Mark (2017-09-21). "Why We Sleep by Matthew Walker review – how more sleep can save your life". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 2017-09-24.
  11. ^ "A 'catastrophic sleep-loss epidemic' is killing us, warns leading scientist". The Independent. 2017-09-24. Retrieved 2017-09-24.
  12. ^ "Why We Sleep".
  13. ^ New York Times, Bestsellers, Science
  14. ^ "Dozy Science". More or Less. 25 January 2020. BBC. Radio 4.
  15. ^ Gelman, Andrew (2019-12-27). "Why we sleep" data manipulation: A smoking gun?". statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu.


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