A new theoretical approach to the functional meaning of sleep and dreaming in humans based on the maintenance of 'predictive psychic homeostasis'

Communicative and Integrative Biology

Volumn 4, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 640-654

  Agnati, Luigi F ^a   Barlow, Peter W ^b   Baluška, Frantisek ^c   Tonin, Paolo ^a   Guescini, Michele ^d   Leo, Giuseppina ^e   Fuxe, Kjell ^f  

^a IRRCS San Camillo   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF URBINO   (Italy)

^e UNIVERSITY OF MODENA AND REGGIO EMILIA   (Italy)

^f KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Circadian rhythms of peripheral organs; Evolutionary tinkering; Homeostasis of internal milieu; Predictive psychic homeostasis; Sleep and dream theories

Indexed keywords

EID: 84858662335     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19420889     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4161/cib.17602     Document Type: Article

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