The physiologic nature of sleep:
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Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: London Imperial College Press ©2005
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Item Description:Includes bibliographical references and index
Energy processes underlying the sleep-wake cycle -- Humoral mechanisms of sleep -- Neurotransmitters, neuromodulators, and sleep -- A possible role for sleep in synaptic homeostasis -- Electroencephalography, polysomnography, and other sleep recording systems -- Brain imaging on passing to sleep -- Hypothalamic mechanisms of sleep: perspective from neuronal unit recording studies -- A physiological view of REM sleep structure -- The power of behavioral analysis in understanding sleep mechanisms -- Animal sleep: phylogenetic correlations -- Remarks on sensory neurophysiological mechanisms participating in active sleep processes -- The problem of causal determination of sleep behaviour -- Control of muscle tone across the sleep-wake cycle -- Neural control of breathing in sleep
Reflex cardiovascular control in sleep -- Regulation of cerebral circulation during sleep -- Central neural mechanisms underlying disordered breathing and cardiovascular control during sleep -- Sleep behaviour and temperature -- Thermoregulation and sleep in the human -- Endocrine correlates of sleep in humans -- The use of melatonin as a chronobiotic-cytoprotective agent in sleep disorders -- What individual neurones tell us about encoding and sensory processing in sleep -- Human auditory information processing during sleep assessed with evoked potentials -- Cognitive aspects of sleep: perception, mentation, and dreaming -- Interactions between sleep, wakefulness and the olfactory system -- Sleep and memory
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (xx, 639 pages)
ISBN:1281867071
1860945570
1860947182
9781281867070
9781860945571
9781860947186

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