The Function of Sleep

Sleep: A Comprehensive Handbook

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 45-48

  Frank, Marcos G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Metabolic theories; Sleep in adult learning and plasticity; Somatic theories of sleep function

Indexed keywords

EID: 84856874569     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/0471751723.ch7     Document Type: Chapter

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