Book 10 · Body & Brain
The Sleeping Brain
What the Brain Does When the World Goes Quiet
Explores sleep as an active biological process and considers how sleep, development, learning, regulation and daily capacity interact.
- Sleep
- Brain & Nervous System
- Body & Physiology
- Development
- Regulation
- Learning & Memory
What you will explore
Understand the night in the context of the whole person
Sleep timing and pressure
Sleep architecture and development
Restoration and learning
Next-day capacity
Individual sleep patterns
Choose how deeply you want to explore
One resource, three reading depths
Choose the depth that fits your purpose. The web editions are being prepared in controlled stages.
L1
Complete
The full resource, with the complete explanation, scientific context and development of the ideas.
Being prepared for web reading
L2
Overview
A guided exploration of the principal ideas and supporting explanation without reading the entire book.
Being prepared for web reading
L3
Summary
A shorter starting point for the central ideas when you want an accessible professional introduction.
Read Summary →Who might find this useful?
A resource for understanding, not a prescription
This resource may be useful to parents and carers, education staff, healthcare and allied-health professionals, university students and anyone exploring how sleep can contribute to a wider understanding of behaviour and daily capacity.
Continue your journey
Body & Brain
The Sleeping Brain is the first resource in a connected sequence. The Moving Brain and The Nourished Brain will follow through the same Library architecture.