Underlying brain mechanisms that regulate sleep-wakefulness cycles

International Review of Neurobiology

Volumn 93, Issue C, 2010, Pages 1-21

  Gvilia, Irma ^a,b,c  

^a ILIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (Georgia)

^b VA GREATER LOS ANGELES HEALTHCARE SYSTEM   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Preoptic hypothalamus; Sleep homeostasis; Sleep regulation; Sleep wakefulness cycle

Indexed keywords

GALANIN; OREXIN; PROTEIN C FOS;

AROUSAL; BOOK; BRAIN FUNCTION; CELL FUNCTION; CHOLINERGIC NERVE; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; GABAERGIC SYSTEM; HOMEOSTASIS; HUMAN; HYPOTHALAMUS; INTERNEURON; MEDIAL PREOPTIC AREA; MONOAMINE NERVE CELL; NERVE EXCITABILITY; NERVE PROJECTION; NONHUMAN; NONREM SLEEP; PREOPTIC NUCLEUS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REM SLEEP; SLEEP PATTERN; SLEEP WAKING CYCLE;

EID: 77958141851     PISSN: 00747742     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/S0074-7742(10)93001-8     Document Type: Chapter

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