… sleep. One subgroup of median and ventrolateral preoptic neurons maintains their NREM
sleep activity in REM sleep whereas the remaining sleep … reduced activity in REM sleep.[8] [16] …

… REM sleep and non-REM (NREM) sleep. Summary: The flip-flop switch circuitry of the wake-sleep
regulatory system produces the typical sleep … between NREM and REM sleep at night. …

The central nervous system undergoes several dynamic changes during sleep, which are
coordinated by the pons, basal forebrain areas, and other subcortical structures and are …

… the intrinsic mechanisms of sleep neurobiology. Several models that explain the transition
and the continuity between wakefulness, NREM sleep and REM sleep have been proposed. …

… focuses on the how of sleep, not the why of sleep. The authors discuss the wake and sleep
centers, the transition between wake and sleep, regulation of REM and NREM sleep, and the …

… a | Brain regions of current interest to the neurobiology of sleep… sleep–wake transitions and,
within sleep, REM–NREM sleep … of sleep, the subjective experience of sleep mentation or …

Our understanding of the neural control of sleep in large part parallels the history of neuroscience.
As new tools and methodologies have become available to the research community, …

In 1998, our group discovered a cDNA that encoded the precursor of two putative neuropeptides
that we called hypocretins for their hypothalamic expression and their similarity to the …

Publisher Summary This chapter discusses both molecular and genetic approaches. The
chapter highlightsthat functions of sleep may relate to cellular and molecular aspects of neural …

This paper presents an overview of the current knowledge of the neurophysiology and cellular
pharmacology of sleep mechanisms. It is written from the perspective that recent years …