REM sleep: A biological and psychological paradox

Sleep Medicine Reviews

Volumn 15, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 139-142

  Siegel, Jerome M ^a,b  

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

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OREXIN;

BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN REGION; BRAIN STEM; COGNITION; DREAMING; EDITORIAL; HUMAN; NARCOLEPSY; NERVE PROJECTION; NERVOUS SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT; NONHUMAN; PONS; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; RECALL; REM SLEEP; SLEEP WAKING CYCLE; THALAMUS; WAKEFULNESS;

ANIMALS; BRADYCARDIA; BRAIN; CATAPLEXY; DREAMS; ENERGY METABOLISM; HUMANS; INTRACELLULAR SIGNALING PEPTIDES AND PROTEINS; MICE; NARCOLEPSY; NEURONS; NEUROPEPTIDES; PARASYMPATHETIC NERVOUS SYSTEM; RATS; SLEEP DEPRIVATION; SLEEP, REM; SYMPATHETIC NERVOUS SYSTEM;

EID: 79955059521     PISSN: 10870792     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.smrv.2011.01.001     Document Type: Editorial

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