The physiologic nature of sleep /

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This book provides a broad introduction to the fascinating subject of sleep, a behavioral state in which human beings spend a third of their life span, and a topic which interests not only the specialist but also the layperson. Everybody knows that well-being also depends on undisturbed, normal slee...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Parmeggiani, P. L. (Pier Luigi), 1928-, Velluti, Ricardo A.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: London : Hackensack, NJ : Imperial College Press ; Distributed by World Scientific Pub., ©2005.
Temas:
Sleep > Physiological aspects.
Sleep > physiology
Brain > physiology
Physiological Phenomena
Sommeil > Aspect physiologique.
MEDICAL > Neuroscience.
PSYCHOLOGY > Neuropsychology.
Sleep > Physiological aspects
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.

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