A neural mechanism of sleep and wakefulness

Sleep and Biological Rhythms

Volumn 1, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 29-42

  Sakai, Kazuya ^a   Crochet, Sylvain ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ LYON 1   (France)

Author keywords

active and passive hypotheses of sleep; brain stem; forebrain; sleep and wake active neurons

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID;

BASAL FOREBRAIN; BRAIN NERVE CELL; BRAIN STEM; CHOLINERGIC NERVE CELL; DEAFFERENTATION; HUMAN; MONOAMINE NERVE CELL; NERVE CELL INHIBITION; NONHUMAN; NORADRENERGIC NERVE CELL; POSTERIOR HYPOTHALAMUS; PREOPTIC AREA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SEROTONINERGIC NERVE CELL; SLEEP; SLEEP WAKING CYCLE; TEGMENTUM; WAKEFULNESS;

EID: 84979891835     PISSN: 14469235     EISSN: 14798425     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1446-9235.2003.00004.x     Document Type: Review

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