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The neural control of sleep and waking /

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Why we need to sleep is not actually known, but it is a topic that continues to intrigue us and it is still very much the subject of active research. The author takes an historical approach to the subject and hence largely takes a chronological view of sleep research and the scientists' ideas a...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Siegel, Jerome H., 1932-
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : Springer, [2002]
Subjects:
Sleep > Research > History.
Sleep-wake cycle > Research > History.
Sleep > physiology.
Central Nervous System > physiology.
Sleep Wake Disorders > physiopathology.
Wakefulness > physiology.
MEDICAL > Neuroscience.
PSYCHOLOGY > Neuropsychology.
Electronic books.
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Table of Contents:
  • A brief synopsis of neuroanatomy
  • Technological developments
  • Early research on brain mechanisms of sleep and waking
  • The discovery of the ascending reticular activating system
  • The neural pathways that produce arousal
  • Forebrain and hindbrain inhibition of the reticular activating system
  • EEG synchrony and behavioral inhibition
  • Cellular mechanisms and neural circuits that produce sleep
  • Sleep factors
  • Sleep as a circadian rhythm
  • The discovery of REM sleep
  • The neural control of REM sleep
  • Theories of sleep and waking
  • Disorders of sleep and waking.