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Science 18 July 2008:
Vol. 321. no. 5887, p. 343
DOI: 10.1126/science.1159339
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MEDICINE:
When Sleep Proves Impossible

Michael L. Perlis

Insomniac
by Gayle Greene
University of California Press, Berkeley, 2008. 517 pp. $29.95. ISBN 9780520246300.
Drawing on her lifelong affliction with chronic insomnia and her interviews with neurologists, sleep researchers, physicians, psychiatrists, and fellow sufferers, the author weaves a wide-ranging account of the condition, its causes, and potential remedies.
The reviewer is at the Sleep and Neurophysiology Research Laboratory, University of Rochester Medical Center, 300 Crittenden Boulevard, Rochester, NY 14642-8409, USA. E-mail: michael_perlis{at}urmc.rochester.edu

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