Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Preface / Carmine D. Clemente, Dominick P. Purpura, Florence E. Mayer
  • Part I. The Maturation of Neural Elements
  • Principles of Synaptogenesis and Their Application to Ontogenetic Studies of Mammalian Cerebral Cortex / Dominick P. Purpura, Robert J. Shofer
  • The Development of Synapses in the Rat Cerebellar Cortex / Barry J. Hoffer [and others]
  • Maturing Neuronal Subsystems : The Dendrites of Spinal Motoneurons / Madge E. Scheibel, Arnold B. Scheibel
  • Part II. Neurochemical Factors in the Maturation of Sleep Behavior
  • Coordination between Excitation and Inhibition : Development of the GABA System / Eugene Roberts
  • Contributions of Differential Housing to Brain Development : Some Implications for Sleep Behavior / Walter B. Essman
  • The Role of Biogenic Amines in Sleep / Oscar Resnick
  • Developmental Changes in Neurochemistry during the Maturation of Sleep Behavior / Williamina A. Himwich
  • Maturation of Neurobiochemical Systems Related to the Ontogeny of Sleep Behavior / Peter J. Morgane
  • Part III. Development of EEG and Activity Patterns in Relation to Sleep
  • Development of Wakefulness-Sleep Cycles and Associated EEG Patterns in Mammals / Robert J. Ellingson
  • The Basic Rest-Activity Cycle and Sleep : Developmental Considerations in Man and Cats / M.B. Sterman
  • Development of States in Infants / Arthur H. Parmelee Jr., Evelyn Stern
  • Part IV. Development of Reflex Patterns in Sleep
  • The Somatosensory Cerebral Evoked Potentials of the Sleeping Human Newborn / John E. Desmedt, J. Debecker
  • Patterns of Reflex Excitability during the Ontogenesis of Sleep and Wakefulness / Michael H. Chase
  • Patterns of Reflex Behavior Related to Sleep in the Human Infant / H.F.R. Prechtl
  • Part V. Developmental Aspects of Normal and Abnormal Sleep Behavior
  • Sleep Deprivation and the Organization of the Behavioral States / William C. Dement
  • Development of Sleep Patterns in Autistic Children / Edward M. Ornitz
  • Sleep in Mental Retardation / Olga Petre-Quadens
  • Maternal Toxemia, Fetal Malnutrition, and Bioelectric Brain Activity of the Newborn / F.J. Schulte, Gabriele Hinze, Gerlind Schrempf
  • Summary and Concluding Remarks / Donald B. Lindsley.