Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Front Cover; Progress in Brain Research: Sleep Mechanisms; Copyright Page; Contents; List of contributors; Preface; Part I: Integral aspects of sleep; Chapter 1. Sleep as a phenomenon of the integral organism; Chapter 2. The anatomical substrate of sleep; Chapter 3. Paradoxical sleep
  • A study of its nature and mechanisms; Chapter 4. Cortical and subcortical auditory evoked potentials during wakefulness and sleep in the cat; Chapter 5. Some aspects of the electro-ontogenesis of sleep patterns; Part II: Microelectrical and molecular aspects of sleep
  • Chapter 6. Relation of cell size to effects of sleep in pyramidal tract neuronsChapter 7. Rhythmic enzyme changes in neurons and glia during sleep and wakefulness; Chapter 8. Central neuro-humoral transmission in sleep and wakefulness; Chapter 9. Humoral regulation of sleep and wakefulness by hypnogenic and activating dialysable factors; Part III: Clinical aspects of sleep; Chapter 10. Sleep and sleep disturbances in the electroencephalogram; Chapter 11. Neurophysiological studies of abnormal night sleep and the Pickwickian syndrome
  • Chapter 12. Some psychophysiological features of human sleepChapter 13. Objective correlates of the refreshing effects of sleep; Chapter 14. The effects of certain drugs on the sleep cycle in man; Chapter 15. Amplitudes and evoked responses in the EEG in humans during sleep and anesthesia; Part IV: Therapeutic aspects of sleep; Chapter 16. Pharmacology of hypnotic agents; Chapter 17. Neuropharmacological aspects of the action of hypnogenic substances on the central nervous system; Chapter 18. Effects of benzodiazepines on spontaneous EEG and arousal responses of cats
  • Part V: Summary statementsChapter 19. Summary statement; Chapter 18. Summary and conchsion from the internal medical aspect; Author Index; Subject Index