The neural control of sleep and waking

Preface.- Acknowledgements.- A Brief Synopsis of Neuroanatomy.- Technological Developments.- Early Research on Brain Mechanisms of Sleep and Waking.- The Discovery of the Ascending Reticular Activating System.- The Neural Pathways that Produce Arousal.- Forebrain and Hindbrain Inhibition of the Reticular Activating System.- EEG Synchrony and Behavioral Inhibition.- Cellular Mechanisms and Neural Circuits that Produce Sleep.- Sleep Factors.- Sleep as a Circadian Rhythm.- The Discover of REM Sleep.- The Neural Control of REM Sleep.- Theories of Sleep and Waking.- Disorders of Sleep and Waking.- References.- Abbreviations.- Glossary.- Index.