Functional Anatomy of the Sleep-Wakefulness Cycle: Wakefulness

• Main Authors: Reinoso-Suárez, Fernando (Author), de Andrés, Isabel (Author), Garzón, Miguel (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 2011.
• Series: Advances in Anatomy, Embryology and Cell Biology, 208
• Subjects: Medicine.; Neurosciences.; Biomedicine.

Wakefulness is a necessary, active and periodic brain state, with a circadian and homeostatic regulation and precisely meshed with other states into the sleep-wakefulness cycle. This monograph first overviews the historical background and current understanding of the neuronal systems generating and/...