Sleep and body temperature are tightly interconnected in mammals: warming up our body
helps to fall asleep and the body temperature in turn drops while falling asleep. The preoptic …

[Frontiers in Bioscience 15, 604-625, January 1, 2010] 604 The interrelationship between sleep
regulation and thermoregulation K Page 1 [Frontiers in Bioscience 15, 604-625, January 1 …

Manual scoring of polysomnography data is labor-intensive and time-consuming, and most
existing software does not account for subjective differences and user variability. Therefore …

Ambient temperature (T a) warming toward the high end of the thermoneutral zone (TNZ)
preferentially increases rapid eye movement (REM) sleep over non-REM (NREM) sleep …

The possibility of inducing a suspended animation state similar to natural torpor would be
greatly beneficial in medical science, since it would avoid the adverse consequence of the …

All animals in which sleep has been studied express signs of sleep-like behaviour,
suggesting that sleep must have some fundamental functions that are sustained by natural …

Insomnia, the most common sleep disorder, is characterized by persistent difficulty in falling
or staying asleep despite adequate opportunity to sleep, leading to daytime fatigue and …

Autonomic thermoregulation is a recently acquired function, as it appears for the first time in
mammals and provides the brain with the ability to control energy expenditure. The …

The Raphe Pallidus (RPa) is a brainstem nucleus containing sympathetic premotor neurons
that control thermogenesis and modulate cardiovascular function. It receives inputs from …

Peptidergic mechanisms controlling feeding, metabolism, thermoregulation, and sleep
overlap in the hypothalamus. Low ambient temperatures and food restriction induce …