Highlights•Influencing sleep-related processes holds promise to treat affective disorders.•
Reactivating memories during NREM sleep improves subsequent memory …

Animals respond to sleep loss with compensatory rebound sleep, and this is thought to be
critical for the maintenance of physiological homeostasis. Sleep duration varies dramatically …

Background Posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) increases risk of future respiratory illness.
However, mechanisms that underpin the association between these common and …

Although sleep seems an obvious and simple behaviour, it is extremely complex involving
numerous interactions both at the neuronal and the molecular levels. While we have gained …

Background Age-related cognitive deficits negatively affect quality of life and can presage
serious neurodegenerative disorders. Despite sleep disruption's well-recognized negative …

Sleep homoeostasis refers to a process in which the propensity to sleep increases as
wakefulness progresses and decreases as sleep progresses. Sleep is tightly organized …

The two-process model of sleep-wake regulation asserts a neurobiological drive for sleep
that varies homeostatically (increasing as a saturating exponential during wakefulness and …

Sleep is a ubiquitous, tightly regulated, and evolutionarily conserved behavior observed in
almost all animals. Prolonged sleep deprivation can be fatal, indicating that sleep is a …

Biological Psychology Page 1 Page 2 Critical Thinking in Psychology Biological Psychology
Minna Lyons, Neil Harrison, Gayle Brewer, Sarita Robinson and Rob Sanders Series Editor …

Study objective: To assess differences in gene expression in cholinergic basal forebrain
cells between sleeping and sleep-deprived mice sacrificed at the same time of day …