Sleep - Physiology
Research News and Information

Saturday, November 21, 2009

Cycling behavior and memory formation.

12 Oct 2009 Circadian research has spent considerable effort in the determining clock output pathways, including identifying both physiological and behavioral processes that demonstrate significant time-of-day variation. Memory formation and consolidation ... Read more...

[Sleep disorders in the elderly]

6 Oct 2009 BACKGROUND: Sleep disorders are common in the elderly, and may lead to substantially impaired quality of life. Many of these disorders are not diagnosed or treated. This article covers treatment options and characteristics of common sleep disorders ... Read more...

[Sleep disorders in children and adolescents]

6 Oct 2009 BACKGROUND: Pediatric sleep is a rapidly developing area, and understanding of sleep disorders in children and adolescents is improving. The article aims to present new knowledge to Norwegian physicians. MATERIAL AND METHODS: The article is based on ... Read more...

Latest indexed articles for 'Sleep - Physiology'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• Cycling behavior and memory formation. 12 Oct 2009
• [Sleep disorders in the elderly] 6 Oct 2009
• [Sleep disorders in children and adolescents] 6 Oct 2009
• Journal club. A geneticist wonders why we need to sleep. 29 Sep 2009
• An unexpected role for TASK-3 potassium channels in network oscillations with implications for sleep mechanisms and anesthetic action. 22 Sep 2009
• [Sleep-related movement disorders] 22 Sep 2009
• Cortical firing and sleep homeostasis. 22 Sep 2009
• Resting our cortices by going DOWN to sleep. 22 Sep 2009
• Neurophysiologic assessment of brain maturation after an 8-week trial of skin-to-skin contact on preterm infants. 15 Sep 2009
• Basal forebrain lactate release and promotion of cortical arousal during prolonged waking is attenuated in aging. 14 Sep 2009
• Emerging principles and neural substrates underlying tonic sleep-state-dependent influences on respiratory motor activity. 10 Sep 2009
• [Basic sleep mechanisms] 8 Sep 2009
• [Mysteries of the sleep] 8 Sep 2009
• The effects of caffeine on sleep in Drosophila require PKA activity, but not the adenosine receptor. 31 Aug 2009
• Sleep homeostasis modulates hypocretin-mediated sleep-to-wake transitions. 31 Aug 2009
• The impact of sleep duration and subject intelligence on declarative and motor memory performance: how much is enough? 30 Aug 2009
• Assessing quality of sleep in patients with rheumatoid arthritis. 30 Aug 2009
• Spontaneous brain activity in the newborn brain during natural sleep--an fMRI study in infants born at full term. 30 Aug 2009
• Sleep duration and obesity in children: is the association dependent on age and choice of the outcome parameter? 30 Aug 2009
• Overnight therapy? The role of sleep in emotional brain processing. 30 Aug 2009

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Technical information about 'Sleep'

Definition: A readily reversible suspension of sensorimotor interaction with the environment, usually associated with recumbency and immobility.

Descriptor UI: D012890

Alternative terms: Sleep; Sleep, Slow-Wave; Sleep, Slow Wave; Slow-Wave Sleep;

Related Mesh Headings: Polysomnography;

Allowable Qualifiers: drug effects; genetics; immunology; physiology; radiation effects; ethics;

Tree Number: F02.830.855; G11.561.600.815;