Steriade / McCarley Brainstem Control of Wakefulness and Sleep

Erscheinungsjahr 2013
ISBN: 978-1-4757-4669-3
Verlag: Springer US
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 499 Seiten, eBook

This book is part of an ongoing history of efforts to understand the nature of waking and sleeping states from a biological point of view. We believe the recent technological revolutions in anatomy and physiology make the present moment especially propitious for this effort. In planning this book we had the choices of producing an edited volume with invited chapter authors or of writing the book ourselves. Edited volumes offer the opportunity for expression of expertise in each chapter but, we felt, would not allow the development of our ideas on the potential and actual unity of the field and would not allow the expression of coherence that can be obtained only with one or two voices, but which may be quite difficult with a chorus assembled and performing together for the first time. (Unlike musical works, there is very little precedent for rehearsals and repeated performances for authors of edited volumes or even for the existence of conductors able to induce a single rhythm and vision of the composition. ) We thus decided on a monograph. The primary goal was to communicate the current realities and the future possibilities of unifying basic studies on anatomy and cellular physiology with investigations of the behavioral and physi ological events of waking and sleep. In keeping with this goal we cross-reference the basic cellular physiology in the latter chapters, and, in the last chapter, we take up possible links to relevant clinical phenomenology.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Steriade, Mircea M.

McCarley, Robert W.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1 Changing Concepts of Mechanisms of Waking and Sleep States.- 2 Methodological Advances in Knowledge of Morphological Substrates Underlying States of Vigilance.- 3 The Origin of Afferents to the Brainstem Core.- 4 Efferent Connections of Brainstem Neurons.- 5 Intrinsic Electrophysiological Properties of Brainstem Neurons and Their Relationship to Behavioral Control.- 6 Neurotransmitter-Modulated Ionic Currents of Brainstem Neurons and Some of Their Targets.- 7 Synchronized Brain Oscillations and Their Disruption by Ascending Brainstem Reticular Influxes.- 8 Brainstem Ascending Systems Controlling Synaptic Transmission of Afferent Signals.- 9 Brainstem Genesis and Thalamic Transfer of Pontogeniculooccipital Waves.- 10 Motor Systems: The Brainstem Oculomotor System and Mechanisms of Motor Atonia in REM Sleep.- 11 Neuronal Control of the Sleep-Wake States.- 12 REM Sleep as a Biological Rhythm. The Phenomenology and a Structural and Mathematical Model.- 13 Brainstem Mechanisms of Dreaming and of Disorders of Sleep in Man.- References.