Until recently, neuroscience has given sleep research and discovery of better treatments of
sleep disturbances little attention, despite the fact that disturbed sleep has overwhelming …

Sleep is a neurochemical process involving sleep promoting and arousal centers in the
brain. Sleep performs an essential restorative function and facilitates memory consolidation …

Sleep is a crucially important and evolutionarily conserved process across the animal
kingdom. Mammalian sleep states are characterized by altered brain activity in the rapid eye …

Sleep medicine is an ambitious cross-disciplinary challenge, requiring the mutual
integration between complementary specialists in order to build a solid framework. Although …

Regulation of the sleep-waking cycle is complex and involves diverse brain circuits and
molecules. On one hand, an interplay among many neuroanatomical and neurochemical …

There is a strong body of data directly interrelating sleep problems with mood disorders.
There is a growing data base directly associating sleep disorders with attention and memory …

The basic functions of sleep are still unclear, however, recent advances in genomics and
proteomics have begun to contribute to our understanding of both normal and pathological …

The study of sleep is a useful approach to studying the brain in psychiatric disorders and in
investigating the effects of psychotropic drugs. Sleep physiology lends itself well to …

Pharmacological approaches to our understanding of sleep have been at the forefront of
sleep research for many years. Traditional techniques have included the use of …

The development of new therapeutics for sleep disorders is increasingly dependent upon
understanding the basic brain circuitry that underlies sleep–wake regulation, and how it may …