1st Edition

Sleep Circuits and Functions

Edited By Pierre-Herve' Luppi Copyright 2004

    An estimated 40 million Americans and millions of others worldwide suffer from some type of sleep disruption or disorder, and these numbers are rapidly increasing. As biomedical technologies advance our understanding of sleep, a wave of developments in sleep research and the emergence of new technologies offer hope and help for a good night‘s

    NEURONAL NETWORKS RESPONSIBLE FOR THE SLEEP-WAKING CYCLE. Sleep and Neuronal Plasticity: Cellular Mechanisms of Corticothalamic Oscillations. Role of Extra-Thalamic Pathways in Sleep and the EEG Oscillations. In Vitro Identification of the Presumed Sleep-promoting Neurons of the Ventrolateral Preoptic nucleus (VLPO). Molecular Mechanisms of Sleep-wake Regulation: A Role of Prostagliandin D2 and Adenosine. The Network Responsible for Paradoxical Sleep Onset and Maintenance: A New Theory Based on the Head-restrained Rat Model. Reverse Genetics and the Study of Sleep/Wake Cycle: The Hypocretins and Cortistatin. Genetic Regulation of Sleep. Searching for Sleep Mutants of Drosophila Melanogaster. FUNCTIONS OF SLEEP. Sleep Phylogeny: Clues of the Evolution and Function of Sleep. Sleep, Synaptic plasticity and the Developing Brain. Changes in Brain Gene Expression Between Sleep and Wakefulness. Neuronal Reverberation and the Consolidation of New Memories Across the Wake-Sleep Cycle. Cerebral Functional Segregation and Integration During Human Sleep.

    Biography

    Pierre-Herve' Luppi