Rest in poikilothermic animals is an adaptation of the organism to adjust to the geophysical
cycles, a doubtless valuable function for all animals. In this review, we argue that the …

Sleep researchers are often confronted with such reasonable questions as the following:
How much sleep do we need? What is the most efficient sleep schedule? Does anything …

Sleep can be defined many ways; however, the basic core concepts remain the same. First
and foremost is that sleep is a brain process. The body rests but the brain sleeps. This is not …

The state of sleep consists of different phases that proceed in successive, tightly regulated
order through the night forming a physiological program, which for each individual is …

This book provides a broad introduction to the fascinating subject of sleep, a behavioral
state in which human beings spend a third of their life span, and a topic which interests not …

In the last few decades, scientists have made extraordinary progress characterizing the
neurobiology [1], regulatory mechanisms [2], and genetic underpinnings of mammalian …

Sleep medicine is a recent discipline but its field of knowledge is already extensive. This
results from the progress made in understanding sleep-wake mechanisms, the development …

As long as we do not know how and why sleep forces on us a necessary and recurrent
change in the process of our relations with our environment, it is impossible to give a …

Awakening is a crucial event for the organism. The transition from sleep to waking implies
physiological processes which lead to a new behavioural state. Spontaneous awakenings …

This book is not meant to be a comprehensive text on sleep, but a selective and personal
account giving several hypotheses about a variety of aspects of sleep.(PsycINFO Database …